About the Authors

Angela M. C. Rose

angela.rose@cavehill.uwi.edu

Affiliations Epicentre, Paris, France, Chronic Disease Research Centre, University of the West Indies, Barbados, West Indies

Judith E. Mueller

Affiliation Agence de Médecine Préventive, Paris, France

Sibylle Gerstl

Affiliation Epicentre, Paris, France

Berthe-Marie Njanpop-Lafourcade

Affiliation Agence de Médecine Préventive, Paris, France

Anne-Laure Page

Affiliation Epicentre, Paris, France

Pierre Nicolas

Affiliation Institut de Médecine Tropicale du Service de Santé des Armées (IMTSSA), World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Meningococci, Marseille, France

Ramata Ouédraogo Traoré

Affiliation Laboratoire de Biologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pédiatrique Charles de Gaulle, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Dominique A. Caugant

Affiliations World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Meningococci, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway, Institute of General Practice and Community Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway

Philippe J. Guerin

Affiliation Epicentre, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMR PJG. Performed the experiments: JEM SG BMNL PN ROT DAC. Analyzed the data: AMR SG ALP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JEM BMNL PN ROT DAC. Wrote the paper: AMR JEM SG BMNL ALP PN ROT DAC PJG.