Article Information
vol. 323 no. 5913 527-530
- Received for publication September 18, 2008
- Accepted for publication December 11, 2008
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Author Information
- Yoshan Moodley1,*,†,
- Bodo Linz1,*,‡,
- Yoshio Yamaoka2,*,
- Helen M. Windsor3,
- Sebastien Breurec4,5,
- Jeng-Yih Wu6,
- Ayas Maady7,
- Steffie Bernhöft1,
- Jean-Michel Thiberge8,
- Suparat Phuanukoonnon9,
- Gangolf Jobb10,
- Peter Siba9,
- David Y. Graham2,
- Barry J. Marshall3,
- Mark Achtman1,11,§
- 1 Max-Planck-Institut für Infektionsbiologie, Department of Molecular Biology, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
- 2 Department of Medicine-Gastroenterology, Baylor College of Medicine and Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
- 3 Microbiology and Immunology M502, School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Australia 6009.
- 4 Institut Pasteur, BP 220, Dakar, Sénégal.
- 5 Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle-Calédonie, BP61, 98845 Noumea, New Caledonia.
- 6 Department of Gastroenterology, Kaohsiung Medical University, 100 Shih-Chuan 1st Road, Kaohsiung 80708, Taiwan.
- 7 Department of Endoscopy, Republic Hospital No. 1, Kyzyl City 667003, Republic of Tuva, Russia.
- 8 Institut Pasteur, Genotyping of Pathogens and Public Health, 28 rue du Dr Roux, 75724 Paris, France.
- 9 Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Post Office Box 60, Goroka, EHP, 441 Papua New Guinea.
- 10 Fritz-Kortner-Bogen 36, 81739 Munich, Germany.
- 11 Environmental Research Institute and Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
- ↵§ To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: m.achtman{at}ucc.ie
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↵* These authors contributed equally to this work.
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↵† Present address: Austrian Academy of Sciences, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology, Savoyenstrasse 1A, A-1160, Vienna, Austria.
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↵‡ Present address: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.