About the Authors
- Ramy K. Aziz
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* E-mail: ramy.aziz@salmonella.org (RKA); kotbmk@uc.edu (MK)
Affiliations Research Services, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Research Services, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, Computation Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Rita Kansal
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Affiliations Research Services, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Research Services, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Bruce J. Aronow
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Affiliation Biomedical Informatics, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- William L. Taylor
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Affiliation Health Science Center, University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America
- Sarah L. Rowe
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Affiliations Research Services, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Research Services, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Health Science Center, University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America
- Michael Kubal
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Affiliation Computation Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Gursharan S. Chhatwal
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Affiliation Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
- Mark J. Walker
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Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
- Malak Kotb
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* E-mail: ramy.aziz@salmonella.org (RKA); kotbmk@uc.edu (MK)
Affiliations Research Services, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Research Services, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Competing Interests
RKA is a one of approximately 1,000 academic editors for PLoS ONE and as such had no access to the peer review or acceptance process for this manuscript (which was conducted with no regard to his position on the board). PLoS ONE academic editors are volunteers and receive no compensation for their services. There are no other competing interests to disclose.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RKA MJW MK. Performed the experiments: RKA RK WLT SLR MJW. Analyzed the data: RKA BJA WLT MK MK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WLT MK GSC MK. Wrote the paper: RKA BJA MJW MK. Supervised the overall conduct of the work and collaborations: MK.