About the Authors

Audrie Lin

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Elisabeth M. Bik

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Elizabeth K. Costello

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Les Dethlefsen

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Rashidul Haque

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

David A. Relman

Contributed equally to this work with: David A. Relman, Upinder Singh

relman@stanford.edu (DAR); usingh@stanford.edu (US)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Upinder Singh

Contributed equally to this work with: David A. Relman, Upinder Singh

relman@stanford.edu (DAR); usingh@stanford.edu (US)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AL EMB EKC DAR US. Performed the experiments: AL EMB EKC. Analyzed the data: AL EMB EKC LD DAR US. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EMB EKC LD RH DAR US. Wrote the paper: AL EMB EKC LD DAR US.