About the Authors
- Kanny Diallo
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Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Centre pour le Développement des Vaccins (CVD), Bamako, Mali, University of Oxford (Department of Zoology), Oxford, United Kingdom
- Mamadou D. Coulibaly
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Roles Formal analysis
Affiliation Centre pour le Développement des Vaccins (CVD), Bamako, Mali
- Lisa S. Rebbetts
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Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation University of Oxford (Department of Zoology), Oxford, United Kingdom
- Odile B. Harrison
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Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation University of Oxford (Department of Zoology), Oxford, United Kingdom
- Jay Lucidarme
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Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Public Health England, (PHE–Vaccine Evaluation Unit), Manchester, United Kingdom
- Kadidja Gamougam
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Roles Resources
Affiliation Centre de Support en Santé Internationale (CSSI), Ndjamena, Chad
- Yenenesh K. Tekletsion
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Roles Resources
Affiliation Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Akalifa Bugri
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† Deceased.
Roles Resources
Affiliation Navrongo Health Research Centre (NHRC), Navrongo, Ghana
- Aliou Toure
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Roles Resources
Affiliation Centre pour le Développement des Vaccins (CVD), Bamako, Mali
- Bassira Issaka
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Roles Resources
Affiliation Centre de Recherche Médicale et Sanitaire (CERMES), Niamey, Niger
- Marietou Dieng
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Roles Resources
Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Dakar, Senegal
- Caroline Trotter
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Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation University of Cambridge (Disease Dynamics Unit -Department of Veterinary Medicine), Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Jean-Marc Collard
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Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Centre de Recherche Médicale et Sanitaire (CERMES), Niamey, Niger
- Samba O. Sow
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Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Centre pour le Développement des Vaccins (CVD), Bamako, Mali
- Xin Wang
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Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Bacterial Diseases, Atlanta, United States of America
- Leonard W. Mayer
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Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Bacterial Diseases, Atlanta, United States of America
- Ray Borrow
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Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Public Health England, (PHE–Vaccine Evaluation Unit), Manchester, United Kingdom
- Brian M. Greenwood
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Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), London, United Kingdom
- Martin C. J. Maiden
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Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation University of Oxford (Department of Zoology), Oxford, United Kingdom
- Olivier Manigart
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: olivier.manigart@lshtm.ac.uk
Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), London, United Kingdom
- for the MenAfriCar Consortium
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¶Membership of the MenAfriCar Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments
Competing Interests
RB reports performing contract research on behalf of Public Health England for Pfizer, Sanofi Pasteur, Serum Institute of India, and GSK. CLT and OM report receiving a consulting payment from GSK. All other authors report no potential conflicts. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.