About the Authors
- Anna Carannante
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
- Cecilia Fazio
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Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
- Arianna Neri
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Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
- Florigio Lista
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Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Scientific Department, Army Medical Center, Rome, Italy
- Silvia Fillo
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Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Scientific Department, Army Medical Center, Rome, Italy
- Andrea Ciammaruconi
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Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Scientific Department, Army Medical Center, Rome, Italy
- Paola Vacca
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Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
- Paola Stefanelli
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: paola.stefanelli@iss.it
Affiliation Department Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
Competing Interests
Competing interests with Pfizer is financial since I received an unrestricted research grant number W78 (as an internal ISS code for this project) to perform molecular characterization of meningococcal of serogroup B strains from 2014 to 2017. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.