About the Authors

Alpha Oumar Diallo

Contributed equally to this work with: Alpha Oumar Diallo, Heidi M. Soeters

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

adiallo@cdc.gov (AOD); hmsoeters@cdc.gov (HMS)

Affiliation National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Heidi M. Soeters

Contributed equally to this work with: Alpha Oumar Diallo, Heidi M. Soeters

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

adiallo@cdc.gov (AOD); hmsoeters@cdc.gov (HMS)

Affiliations National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Issaka Yameogo

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Direction de la Lutte contre la Maladie, Ministère de la Santé, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Guetawendé Sawadogo

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Direction de la Lutte contre la Maladie, Ministère de la Santé, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Flavien Aké

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation CDC Foundation, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Clément Lingani

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation World Health Organization, AFRO Intercountry Support Team for West Africa, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Xin Wang

Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Andre Bita

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation World Health Organization, AFRO Intercountry Support Team for West Africa, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Amadou Fall

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation World Health Organization, AFRO Intercountry Support Team for West Africa, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Lassana Sangaré

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Yalgado Ouédraogo, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Rasmata Ouédraogo-Traoré

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pédiatrique Charles de Gaulle, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Isaïe Medah

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Direction de la Lutte contre la Maladie, Ministère de la Santé, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Brice Bicaba

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Direction de la Lutte contre la Maladie, Ministère de la Santé, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Ryan T. Novak

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

Affiliation National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

for the MenAfriNet Consortium

Membership of the MenAfriNet Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.