About the Authors
- María Victoria Humbert
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Contributed equally to this work with: María Victoria Humbert, Miao-Chiu Hung, Renee Phillips
Affiliation Neisseria Research, Molecular Microbiology, Academic Unit of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Sir Henry Wellcome Laboratories, University of Southampton Faculty of Medicine, Southampton, United Kingdom
- Miao-Chiu Hung
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Contributed equally to this work with: María Victoria Humbert, Miao-Chiu Hung, Renee Phillips
Affiliation Neisseria Research, Molecular Microbiology, Academic Unit of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Sir Henry Wellcome Laboratories, University of Southampton Faculty of Medicine, Southampton, United Kingdom
- Renee Phillips
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Contributed equally to this work with: María Victoria Humbert, Miao-Chiu Hung, Renee Phillips
Current address: Craniofacial Biology Research Group, School of Dentistry, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Affiliation Neisseria Research, Molecular Microbiology, Academic Unit of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Sir Henry Wellcome Laboratories, University of Southampton Faculty of Medicine, Southampton, United Kingdom
- Charlene Akoto
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Affiliation Neisseria Research, Molecular Microbiology, Academic Unit of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Sir Henry Wellcome Laboratories, University of Southampton Faculty of Medicine, Southampton, United Kingdom
- Alison Hill
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Affiliation Neisseria Research, Molecular Microbiology, Academic Unit of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Sir Henry Wellcome Laboratories, University of Southampton Faculty of Medicine, Southampton, United Kingdom
- Wei-Ming Tan
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Affiliation Neisseria Research, Molecular Microbiology, Academic Unit of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Sir Henry Wellcome Laboratories, University of Southampton Faculty of Medicine, Southampton, United Kingdom
- John Edward Heckels
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Affiliation Neisseria Research, Molecular Microbiology, Academic Unit of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Sir Henry Wellcome Laboratories, University of Southampton Faculty of Medicine, Southampton, United Kingdom
- Myron Christodoulides
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* E-mail: mc4@soton.ac.uk
Affiliation Neisseria Research, Molecular Microbiology, Academic Unit of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Sir Henry Wellcome Laboratories, University of Southampton Faculty of Medicine, Southampton, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
Myron Christodoulides and John Heckels are named inventors on meningococcal vaccine patents owned by the University of Southampton (UK Patent Application No. 1211154.8 Nm-ACP Meningitis Vaccine for The University of Southampton; Patent Application No. 13741815.8 in Europe. Nm-ACP Meningitis Vaccine for University of Southampton; Patent Application No. 14/409 724 in USA, Nm-ACP Meningitis Vaccine for University of Southampton; International PCT Patent Application Number PCT/GB2011/051691, claiming priority from UK application 1014967.2 dated 09/09/2010, Nm-MIP as Meningitis Vaccine for the University of Southampton). This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MVH MCH RP JEH MC. Performed the experiments: MVH MCH RP CA AH WMT JEH MC. Analyzed the data: MVH MCH RP JEH MC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JEH MC. Wrote the paper: MVH MCH JEH MC.