About the Authors

Julia T. Castro

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Laboratório de Bacteriologia, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Giuliana S. Oliveira

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Laboratório de Bacteriologia, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Melissa A. Nishigasako

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Laboratório de Bacteriologia, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Anne-Sophie Debrie

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019 –UMR 8204 –CIIL—Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille, France

Eliane N. Miyaji

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratório de Bacteriologia, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Alessandra Soares-Schanoski

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratório de Bacteriologia, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Milena A. Akamatsu

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Seção de Vacinas Aeróbicas, Divisão Bioindustrial, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Camille Locht

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019 –UMR 8204 –CIIL—Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille, France

Paulo L. Ho

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Seção de Vacinas Aeróbicas, Divisão Bioindustrial, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Nathalie Mielcarek

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019 –UMR 8204 –CIIL—Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille, France

Maria Leonor S. Oliveira

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft

marialeonor.oliveira@butantan.gov.br

Affiliation Laboratório de Bacteriologia, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Competing Interests

ML Oliveira, EN Miyaji and PL Ho have a patent deposit for the use of the whole cell pertussis vaccine as adjuvant to PspA in Brazil (INPI PI 1003753-5 A2). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.