Running title: Kinetics of OPV shedding in stool measured by qRT-PCR

Running title: Kinetics of OPV shedding in stool measured by qRT-PCR 3 4 Authors: Mami Taniuchi, Sharmin Begum, Md Jashim Uddin, James A. Platts-Mills, Jie 5 Liu, Beth D. Kirkpatrick, Anwarul H. Chowdhury, Khondoker M. Jamil, Rashidul Haque, 6 William A. Petri, Jr., Eric R. Houpt 7 8 a Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Department of Medicine, University 9 of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. 10 b Parasitology Lab, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, 11 Bangladesh. 12 c Department of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), University of Vermont College of Medicine, 13 Burlington, Vermont, USA. 14 d National Polio and Measles Laboratory, Institute of Public Health, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 15 16