About the Authors

Carlos G. Grijalva

Carlos.grijalva@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliation Department of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Nele Goeyvaerts

Affiliations Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium, Centre for Health Economics Research and Modeling Infectious Diseases, and Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination, Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

Hector Verastegui

Affiliation Instituto de Investigación Nutricional, Lima, Peru

Kathryn M. Edwards

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Ana I. Gil

Affiliation Instituto de Investigación Nutricional, Lima, Peru

Claudio F. Lanata

Affiliation Instituto de Investigación Nutricional, Lima, Peru

Niel Hens

Affiliations Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium, Centre for Health Economics Research and Modeling Infectious Diseases, and Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination, Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

for the RESPIRA PERU project

Competing Interests

CGG has served as consultant for GSK and Pfizer. NG is currently an employee of Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson. CFL is an advisor to Takeda Vaccines Division. NH has received support from the University of Antwerp Response to Reviewers Scientific Chair in Evidence-based Vaccinology, financed in 2009–2014 by a gift from Pfizer, Inc. All other authors have no potential competing interests to report. This work was supported by the Vanderbilt University CTSA grant UL1 RR024975 from National Institutes of Health, an investigator initiated research grant from Pfizer (IIR WS1898786(0887X1-4492), http://www.pfizer.com) and grant 02832-9 from the Thrasher Research Fund(www.thrasherresearch.org/default.aspx). NG is beneficiary of a postdoctoral grant from the AXA Research Fund (http://www.axa-research.org/). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The funding support does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CGG CFL NH. Performed the experiments: CGG HV AIG CFL NH. Analyzed the data: CGG HV NH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CGG NG HV KME AIG CFL NH. Wrote the paper: CGG NG HV KME AIG CFL NH.