About the Authors

Marta C. Nunes

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

nunesm@rmpru.co.za

Affiliations Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation, Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Medical Research Council, Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, Johannesburg, South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Adriana Weinberg

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Medicine and Pathology, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Clare L. Cutland

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation, Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Medical Research Council, Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, Johannesburg, South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Stephanie Jones

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation, Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Medical Research Council, Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, Johannesburg, South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

David Wang

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Influenza division, centre for Diseases Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Bonnie Dighero-Kemp

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Influenza division, centre for Diseases Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Min Z. Levine

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Influenza division, centre for Diseases Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Niteen Wairagkar

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Shabir A. Madhi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation, Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Medical Research Council, Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, Johannesburg, South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.