About the Authors
- Muhamed-Kheir Taha
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* E-mail: mktaha@pasteur.fr (MKT); vogel_u@ukw.de (UV)
Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Invasive Bacterial Infections Unit and National Reference Center for meningococci, Paris, France
- Heike Claus
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Contributed equally to this work with: Heike Claus, Martin Lappann, Frédéric J. Veyrier, Andreas Otto
Affiliation University of Würzburg, Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, Reference laboratory for meningococci and Haemophilus influenzae, Würzburg, Germany
- Martin Lappann
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Contributed equally to this work with: Heike Claus, Martin Lappann, Frédéric J. Veyrier, Andreas Otto
Affiliation University of Würzburg, Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, Reference laboratory for meningococci and Haemophilus influenzae, Würzburg, Germany
- Frédéric J. Veyrier
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Contributed equally to this work with: Heike Claus, Martin Lappann, Frédéric J. Veyrier, Andreas Otto
Current address: INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université du Québec, Québec, Canada
Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Invasive Bacterial Infections Unit and National Reference Center for meningococci, Paris, France
- Andreas Otto
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Contributed equally to this work with: Heike Claus, Martin Lappann, Frédéric J. Veyrier, Andreas Otto
Affiliation Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University, Department of Microbial Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry, Greifswald, Germany
- Dörte Becher
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Affiliation Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University, Department of Microbial Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry, Greifswald, Germany
- Ala-Eddine Deghmane
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Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Invasive Bacterial Infections Unit and National Reference Center for meningococci, Paris, France
- Matthias Frosch
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Affiliation University of Würzburg, Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, Reference laboratory for meningococci and Haemophilus influenzae, Würzburg, Germany
- Wiebke Hellenbrand
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Affiliation Robert Koch Institute, Immunization Unit, Berlin, Germany
- Eva Hong
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Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Invasive Bacterial Infections Unit and National Reference Center for meningococci, Paris, France
- Isabelle Parent du Châtelet
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Affiliation Institut de Veille Sanitaire, Saint Maurice, France
- Karola Prior
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Affiliation University of Münster, Department of Periodontology, Münster, Germany
- Dag Harmsen
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Affiliation University of Münster, Department of Periodontology, Münster, Germany
- Ulrich Vogel
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* E-mail: mktaha@pasteur.fr (MKT); vogel_u@ukw.de (UV)
Affiliation University of Würzburg, Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, Reference laboratory for meningococci and Haemophilus influenzae, Würzburg, Germany
Competing Interests
DH has declared a potential conflict of interest. He is one of the developers of the Ridom SeqSphere+ software mentioned in the manuscript, which is a development of the company Ridom GmbH (Münster, Germany) that is partially owned by him. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MKT UV. Performed the experiments: MKT HC FV ML AO DB EH A-ED. Analyzed the data: MKT UV DH KP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DH KP DB. Wrote the paper: MKT UV DH HC. Contributed in providing epidemiological analysis: IPdC WH MF.