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About the Authors
- Jay Lucidarme
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jay Lucidarme, Bingqing Zhu
Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: jay.lucidarme@phe.gov.uk (JL); shaozhujun@icdc.cn (ZS)
Affiliation Meningococcal Reference Unit, Public Health England, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Bingqing Zhu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jay Lucidarme, Bingqing Zhu
Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, PR China
- Li Xu
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Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, PR China
- Xilian Bai
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Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Meningococcal Reference Unit, Public Health England, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Yuan Gao
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Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, PR China
- Juan José González-López
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Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
- Robert Mulhall
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Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Irish Meningitis and Sepsis Reference Laboratory, Children’s Health Ireland at Temple Street, Dublin, Ireland
- Kevin J. Scott
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Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Bacterial Respiratory Infection Service, Scottish Microbiology Reference Laboratory, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Andrew Smith
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Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Bacterial Respiratory Infection Service, Scottish Microbiology Reference Laboratory, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, United Kingdom, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, Glasgow Dental Hospital & School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Paola Stefanelli
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Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
- Bianca Stenmark
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Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden
- Paul Torpiano
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Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Child and Adolescent Health, Mater Dei Hospital, Msida, Malta
- Georgina Tzanakaki
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Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation National Meningitis Reference Laboratory, Dept. of Public Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece
- Ray Borrow
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Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Meningococcal Reference Unit, Public Health England, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Zhujun Shao
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: jay.lucidarme@phe.gov.uk (JL); shaozhujun@icdc.cn (ZS)
Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, PR China
Competing Interests
I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: JL, XB and RB perform contract research on behalf of Public Health England for GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, and Sanofi Pasteur. GT has performed contract research on behalf of the School of Public Health, University of West Attica for GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. BZ, JJG, YG, RM, KJS, AS, PS, BS, PT, LX, ZS declare no conflicts of interest.