About the Authors

Shelly Bolotin

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

shelly.bolotin@oahpp.ca

Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Stephanie L. Hughes

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Rachel D. Savage

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Elizabeth McLachlan

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada

Alberto Severini

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada

Callum Arnold

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Susan Richardson

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Natasha S. Crowcroft

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Immunization, Vaccines & Biologicals, World Helath Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Shelley Deek

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Scott A. Halperin

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Canadian Center for Vaccinology (CCfV), IWK Health Centre, Nova Scotia Health (NSH), and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia (NS), Canada

Kevin A. Brown

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Todd Hatchette

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Canadian Center for Vaccinology (CCfV), IWK Health Centre, Nova Scotia Health (NSH), and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia (NS), Canada

Selma Osman

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jonathan B. Gubbay

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Division of Infectious Diseases, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Michelle Science

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Division of Infectious Diseases, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Paediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.