About the Authors

Houreratou Barry

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre MURAZ, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

Gaudensia Mutua

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation KAVI—Institute of Clinical Research University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Hannah Kibuuka

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Makerere University—Walter Reed Project, Kampala, Uganda

Zacchaeus Anywaine

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda

Sodiomon B. Sirima

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre National de Recherche et de Formation sur le Paludisme (CNRFP), Unité de Recherche Clinique de Banfora, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Nicolas Meda

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre MURAZ, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

Omu Anzala

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation KAVI—Institute of Clinical Research University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Serge Eholie

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Unit of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, BPV3, Treichville University Teaching Hospital, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Christine Bétard

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Univ. Bordeaux, Inserm, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, UMR 1219; Inria SISTM team; CHU Bordeaux; CIC 1401, EUCLID/F-CRIN Clinical Trials Platform, F-33000, Bordeaux, France

Laura Richert

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Univ. Bordeaux, Inserm, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, UMR 1219; Inria SISTM team; CHU Bordeaux; CIC 1401, EUCLID/F-CRIN Clinical Trials Platform, F-33000, Bordeaux, France, Vaccine Research Institute (VRI), Créteil, France

Christine Lacabaratz

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Vaccine Research Institute (VRI), Créteil, France, Université Paris-Est Créteil, Faculté de Médecine, INSERM U955, Team 16, Créteil, France

M. Juliana McElrath

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Stephen De Rosa

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Kristen W. Cohen

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Georgi Shukarev

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Janssen Vaccines and Prevention, Leiden, the Netherlands

Cynthia Robinson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Janssen Vaccines and Prevention, Leiden, the Netherlands

Auguste Gaddah

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Janssen Research & Development, Beerse, Belgium

Dirk Heerwegh

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Janssen Research & Development, Beerse, Belgium

Viki Bockstal

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Janssen Vaccines and Prevention, Leiden, the Netherlands

Kerstin Luhn

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Janssen Vaccines and Prevention, Leiden, the Netherlands

Maarten Leyssen

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Janssen Vaccines and Prevention, Leiden, the Netherlands

Macaya Douoguih

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Janssen Vaccines and Prevention, Leiden, the Netherlands

Rodolphe Thiébaut

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rodolphe.thiebaut@u-bordeaux.fr

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Univ. Bordeaux, Inserm, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, UMR 1219; Inria SISTM team; CHU Bordeaux; CIC 1401, EUCLID/F-CRIN Clinical Trials Platform, F-33000, Bordeaux, France, Vaccine Research Institute (VRI), Créteil, France

the EBL2002 Study group

Membership of the EBL2002 Study group is provided in the Acknowledgements.

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: HB, CB, LR reports grants from IMI2-2 [Grant Agreement EBOVAC2 (No.115861) from the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking which receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme], during the conduct of the study. SBS reports grants from Janssen Vaccines and Prevention, during the conduct of the study. GS, CR, AG, DH, VB, KL, ML and MD were full-time employees of Janssen, Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson at the time of the study, and declared ownership of shares in Janssen, Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson. All other authors have nothing to disclose.