About the Authors

Touria Benamar

t_benamar@yahoo.com

Affiliation National Institute of Hygiene, Ministry of Health, Rabat, Morocco

Latifa Tajounte

Affiliation National Institute of Hygiene, Ministry of Health, Rabat, Morocco

Amal Alla

Affiliation Epidemiology Department, Ministry of Health, Rabat, Morocco

Fatima Khebba

Affiliation National Institute of Hygiene, Ministry of Health, Rabat, Morocco

Hinda Ahmed

Affiliation Department of Communicable Disease Prevention & Control, WHO/EMRO, Cairo, Egypt

Mick N. Mulders

Affiliation Expanded Programme on Immunization, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Abdelkarim Filali-Maltouf

Affiliation Microbiology and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences, University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco

Rajae El Aouad

Affiliation School of Medicine and Pharmacy, University Mohamed V Souissi, Rabat, Morocco

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TB AA. Performed the experiments: TB FK. Analyzed the data: TB AA MNM REA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TB LT AA HA. Wrote the paper: TB MNM REA AFM.