About the Authors
- Nicholas J. Croucher
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* E-mail: n.croucher@imperial.ac.uk
Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Lisa Kagedan
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Claudette M. Thompson
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Julian Parkhill
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Affiliation Pathogen Genomics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Stephen D. Bentley
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Affiliation Pathogen Genomics, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Jonathan A. Finkelstein
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Affiliations Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Marc Lipsitch
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Affiliations Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- William P. Hanage
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Affiliation Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Competing Interests
I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: WPH has consulted for GlaxoSmithKline. ML has consulted for Pfizer and Novartis.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: NJC WPH ML JP SDB JAF. Performed the experiments: CMT LK. Analyzed the data: NJC LK. Wrote the paper: NJC SDB JP WPH ML JAF.