About the Authors
- Baudouin Standaert
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* E-mail: baudouin.a.standaert@gsk.com
Affiliation Health Economics, GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines, Wavre, Belgium
- Jorge A. Gomez
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Affiliation Medical Department, GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines Latin America, Victoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Marc Raes
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Jessa Hospital, Hasselt, Belgium
- Serge Debrus
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Affiliation Vaccine Development and Discovery, GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines, Wavre, Belgium
- F. Raúl Velázquez
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Affiliation Medical Research Unit on Infectious Diseases, Pediatrics Hospital, National Medical Center-Century XXI, Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), Mexico City, Mexico
- Maarten J. Postma
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Affiliation Unit of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics (PE2), Department of Pharmacy, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Competing Interests
BS, SD and JG are employees of the GlaxoSmithKline group of companies and own stock in the GlaxoSmithKline group of companies. MR's institution received a research grant from the GlaxoSmithKline group of companies for conducting the present study, received funding from the GlaxoSmithKline group of companies for membership of an expert board, and has received funding for travel, accommodation and meetings expenses from the GlaxoSmithKline group of companies, MSD and Pfizer. FRV has received lecture fees, and his institution has received research grants, from the GlaxoSmithKline group of companies. MJP received research grants, honoraria, travel grants and consultancy fees from various pharmaceutical companies (including both companies involved in the production of both rotavirus vaccines; i.e. the GlaxoSmithKline group of companies and Sanofi-Pasteur MSD) for investigations into the economics of vaccines, drugs and methodologies. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Acquired the data: BS JG MR SD. Reviewed and commented on drafts: BS MR JG SR FRV MJP. Approved the final manuscript: BS MR JG SR FRV MJP. Conceived and designed the experiments: BS FRV MJP. Analyzed the data: BS JG MR SD. Wrote the paper: BS MJP.