Estimated severe pneumococcal disease cases and deaths before and after pneumococcal conjugate vaccine introduction in children younger than 5 years of age in South Africa

• Claire von Mollendorf ,

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

  * E-mail: clairevonmollendorf@yahoo.com.au

  Affiliations Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Stefano Tempia,

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

  Affiliations Influenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Influenza Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Anne von Gottberg,

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

  Affiliations Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Susan Meiring,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Public Health Surveillance and Response, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Vanessa Quan,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Public Health Surveillance and Response, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Charles Feldman,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Jeane Cloete,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Pretoria, Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Shabir A. Madhi,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, Medical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Katherine L. O’Brien,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, International Vaccine Access Center, Department of International Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Keith P. Klugman,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  Affiliation Hubert School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Cynthia G. Whitney,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Cheryl Cohen

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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