About the Authors
- Susan Meiring
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* E-mail: susan.meiring@nhls.ac.za
Affiliation Division of Public Health Surveillance and Response, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Cheryl Cohen
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Affiliations Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Vanessa Quan
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Affiliation Division of Public Health Surveillance and Response, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Linda de Gouveia
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Affiliation Division of Public Health Surveillance and Response, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Charles Feldman
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Affiliation Division of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Alan Karstaedt
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Keith P. Klugman
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Affiliations Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Global Health, Hubert School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America
- Shabir A. Madhi
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Affiliations Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, Medical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, School of Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation: Vaccine Preventable Diseases, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Helene Rabie
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Affiliation Department of Pediatric Medicine, Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
- Charlotte Sriruttan
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Affiliation Centre for Opportunistic, Tropical and Hospital-associated Infections, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Anne von Gottberg
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Affiliations Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation: Vaccine Preventable Diseases, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- GERMS-SA
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¶Membership of GERMS-SA is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Anne von Gottberg has received research funding from Pfizer, however this does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All other authors have no conflict of interest.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SM VQ AvG CC KPK. Analyzed the data: SM CC AvG VQ LdG. Wrote the paper: SM CC AvG LdG VQ CF AK HR CS SAM KPK. Data collection and management: SM VQ AvG LdG CC AK CF CS HR KPK.