About the Authors

Fahimah Amini

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

famini@ic.ac.uk

Affiliation Paediatric Infectious Disease Research Group, Institute for Infection and Immunity, St. George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom

Erick Auma

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, ENS de Lyon, CNRS, UMR, Lyon, France

Yingfen Hsia

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Paediatric Infectious Disease Research Group, Institute for Infection and Immunity, St. George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom, School of Pharmacy, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Sam Bilton

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation St Georges University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Tooting, London, United Kingdom

Tom Hall

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Paediatric Infectious Disease Research Group, Institute for Infection and Immunity, St. George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom

Laxmee Ramkhelawon

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Paediatric Infectious Disease Research Group, Institute for Infection and Immunity, St. George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom

Paul T. Heath

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Paediatric Infectious Disease Research Group, Institute for Infection and Immunity, St. George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom, St Georges University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Tooting, London, United Kingdom

Kirsty Le Doare

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Paediatric Infectious Disease Research Group, Institute for Infection and Immunity, St. George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom, St Georges University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Tooting, London, United Kingdom, Pathogen Immunology Group, Public Health England, Porton Down, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: KLD has received funding from IMmunising PRegnant women and INfants network (IMPRINT), funded by the GCRF Networks in Vaccines Research and Development which was co-funded by the MRC and BBSRC, the National Vaccine Program Office (NVPO), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grant OPP1119788, Thrasher Foundation 12250 and NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre KLD2017. KLD has received an honorarium to give a seminar at Pfizer Inc. PTH is an occasional advisor to Pfizer and GSK vaccines. The remaining authors have no competing interests to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.