About the Authors
- Adamos Hadjipanayis
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* E-mail: adamos@paidiatros.com
Affiliations Paediatric Department, Larnaca General Hospital, Larnaca, Cyprus, European University Medical School, 6, Diogenis Street, Engomi, 1516 Nicosia, Cyprus
- Elisavet Efstathiou
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Affiliation Paediatric Department, Larnaca General Hospital, Larnaca, Cyprus
- Maria Alexandrou
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Affiliation Microbiology Laboratory, Larnaca General Hospital, Larnaca, Cyprus
- Loukia Panayiotou
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Affiliation Microbiology Laboratory, Larnaca General Hospital, Larnaca, Cyprus
- Chrystalla Zachariadou
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Affiliation Microbiology Laboratory, Larnaca General Hospital, Larnaca, Cyprus
- Panayiotis Petrou
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Affiliation Microbiology Laboratory, Larnaca General Hospital, Larnaca, Cyprus
- Vasiliki Papaevangelou
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Affiliation Third Department of Paediatrics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, General University Hospital “ATTIKON”, Athens, Greece
Competing Interests
Part of serotype antisera was granted by GSK, Cyprus. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: AH EE VP. Data curation: AH EE. Formal analysis: AH. Funding acquisition: AH. Investigation: AH EE MA LP CZ PP VP. Methodology: AH EE VP. Project administration: AH. Resources: AH EE MA LP CZ PP. Software: AH. Supervision: AH VP. Validation: AH. Visualization: AH EE. Writing – original draft: AH EE VP. Writing – review & editing: AH EE MA VP.