About the Authors

Dinanibè Kambiré

Contributed equally to this work with: Dinanibè Kambiré, Heidi M. Soeters

dinanibekambire@yahoo.fr (DK); hzx8@cdc.gov (HMS)

Affiliation Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pédiatrique Charles de Gaulle, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Heidi M. Soeters

Contributed equally to this work with: Dinanibè Kambiré, Heidi M. Soeters

dinanibekambire@yahoo.fr (DK); hzx8@cdc.gov (HMS)

Affiliations Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Rasmata Ouédraogo-Traoré

Affiliation Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pédiatrique Charles de Gaulle, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Isaïe Medah

Affiliation Ministère de la Santé, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Lassana Sangare

Affiliation Centre Hospitalier Universitaire-Yalgado Ouédraogo, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Issaka Yaméogo

Affiliation Ministère de la Santé, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Guetawendé Sawadogo

Affiliation Ministère de la Santé, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Abdoul-Salam Ouédraogo

Affiliation Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Souro Sanou, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

Soumeya Hema-Ouangraoua

Affiliation Centre Muraz, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

Lesley McGee

Affiliation National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Velusamy Srinivasan

Affiliation National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Flavien Aké

Affiliation CDC Foundation, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Malika Congo-Ouédraogo

Affiliation Centre Hospitalier Universitaire-Yalgado Ouédraogo, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Soufian Sanou

Affiliation Centre Muraz, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

Absatou Ky Ba

Affiliation Laboratoire National de Santé Publique, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Ryan T. Novak

Affiliation National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Chris Van Beneden

Affiliation National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

MenAfriNet Consortium

Membership of the MenAfriNet Consortium is listed in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ROT IM LS LM CVB. Data curation: IY GS HMS. Formal analysis: HMS. Funding acquisition: FA RTN CVB. Investigation: DK GS MCO SS. Project administration: DK HMS ROT IM FA LM VS CVB. Resources: ROT IM LS ASO SHO LM VS FA AKB RTN CVB. Supervision: ROT IM LM VS RTN CVB. Validation: LM VS. Visualization: DK HMS. Writing – original draft: DK HMS. Writing – review & editing: DK HMS ROT LM VS RTN CVB.