About the Authors

Courtney L. Davis

courtney.davis2@pepperdine.edu

Affiliation Natural Science Division, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, United States of America

Rezwanul Wahid

Affiliation Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Franklin R. Toapanta

Affiliation Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jakub K. Simon

Affiliation NanoBio Corporation, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Marcelo B. Sztein

Contributed equally to this work with: Marcelo B. Sztein, Doron Levy

Affiliation Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Doron Levy

Contributed equally to this work with: Marcelo B. Sztein, Doron Levy

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

JKS is an employee of NanoBio Corporation and works on clinical vaccine development, but is not working on Shigella vaccines or mathematical modeling and does not have any financial or non-financial competing interests as defined in PLOS ONE editorial policies. Additionally, this does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CLD RW FRT JKS MBS DL. Performed the experiments: CLD DL. Analyzed the data: CLD DL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CLD RW FRT JKS MBS DL. Wrote the paper: CLD RW FRT JKS MBS DL.