About the Authors

Ayan Dey

Contributed equally to this work with: Ayan Dey, Natalie A. Molodecky

adey@ivi.int (AD); czerkinsky@ipmc.cnrs.fr (CC)

Affiliation International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, South Korea

Natalie A. Molodecky

Contributed equally to this work with: Ayan Dey, Natalie A. Molodecky

Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Harish Verma

Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Prashant Sharma

Affiliations International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, South Korea, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Jae Seung Yang

Affiliation International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, South Korea

Giulietta Saletti

Affiliation International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, South Korea

Mohammad Ahmad

Affiliation World Health Organization- National Polio Surveillance Project, New Dehli, India

Sunil K. Bahl

Affiliation World Health Organization- National Polio Surveillance Project, New Dehli, India

Thomas F. Wierzba

Affiliations International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, South Korea, Vaccine Development Global Program, PATH, Washington, DC, United States of America

Ranjan K. Nandy

Affiliation National institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India

Jagadish M. Deshpande

Affiliation Enterovirus Research Centre, Mumbai, India

Roland W. Sutter

Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Cecil Czerkinsky

adey@ivi.int (AD); czerkinsky@ipmc.cnrs.fr (CC)

Affiliations International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, South Korea, Institut de Pharmacologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS-INSERM-University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Valbonne, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RWS HV CC. Performed the experiments: AD JSY PS GS RKN. Analyzed the data: AD NM RWS CC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AD JMD HV TFW SB RKN. Wrote the paper: AD NM RWS HV CC. Coordinated field and virology laboratories: AD JMD HV TFW SB MA RKN.