Burden of Invasive Group B Streptococcus Disease and Early Neurological Sequelae in South African Infants

• Ziyaad Dangor,

  Affiliations Medical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation: Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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• Sanjay G. Lala,

  Affiliation Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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• Clare L. Cutland,

  Affiliations Medical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation: Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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• Anthonet Koen,

  Affiliations Medical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation: Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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• Lisa Jose,

  Affiliations Medical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation: Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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• Firdose Nakwa,

  Affiliation Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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• Tanusha Ramdin,

  Affiliation Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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• Joy Fredericks,

  Affiliation Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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• Jeannette Wadula,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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• Shabir A. Madhi

  * E-mail: shabirm@nicd.ac.za

  Affiliations Medical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation: Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, National Institute for Communicable Diseases: a division of National Health Laboratory Service, Centre for Vaccines and Immunology, Sandringham, Gauteng, South Africa

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