Shiga toxin increases intestinal transit to displace resident microbes and facilitate pathogen colonization

• Max A. Odem ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Max A. Odem, Sabona B. Simbassa, Cecilia Fadhel Alvarez, Oliyad Jeilu

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Sabona B. Simbassa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Max A. Odem, Sabona B. Simbassa, Cecilia Fadhel Alvarez, Oliyad Jeilu

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Program, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Cecilia Fadhel Alvarez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Max A. Odem, Sabona B. Simbassa, Cecilia Fadhel Alvarez, Oliyad Jeilu

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Program, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Oliyad Jeilu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Max A. Odem, Sabona B. Simbassa, Cecilia Fadhel Alvarez, Oliyad Jeilu

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Shelby R. Simar,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases, The UTHealth Houston School of Public Health at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Rachel Bosserman,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Soumita Dutta,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Walter Galdamez,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Program, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Hossaena Ayele,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases, The UTHealth Houston School of Public Health at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Blake M. Hanson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases, The UTHealth Houston School of Public Health at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Diana M. Proctor,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Program, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Anne Marie Krachler

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: anne.marie.krachler@uth.tmc.edu

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Program, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0936-0016

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