Analysis of a meningococcal meningitis outbreak in Niger – potential effectiveness of reactive prophylaxis

• Matt D. T. Hitchings ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mdh748@mail.harvard.edu

  Affiliation Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics and Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2327-3557

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• Matthew E. Coldiron,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Epicentre, Paris, France

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3345-5971

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• Rebecca F. Grais,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Epicentre, Paris, France

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5037-8218

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• Marc Lipsitch

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics and Departments of Epidemiology and Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

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