Molecular characterization of Neisseria meningitidis isolates recovered from 11-19-year-old meningococcal carriers in Salvador, Brazil

• Ana Rafaela Silva Simões Moura,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Laboratório de Patologia e Biologia Molecular, Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, FIOCRUZ-BA, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

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• Cécilia Batmalle Kretz,

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

  Affiliation Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, United States of America

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• Italo Eustáquio Ferreira,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Laboratório de Patologia e Biologia Molecular, Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, FIOCRUZ-BA, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

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• Amélia Maria Pithon Borges Nunes,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Laboratório de Patologia e Biologia Molecular, Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, FIOCRUZ-BA, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

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• José Cássio de Moraes,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliation Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Mitermayer Galvão Reis,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratório de Patologia e Biologia Molecular, Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, FIOCRUZ-BA, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

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• Alan John Alexander McBride,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratório de Patologia e Biologia Molecular, Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, FIOCRUZ-BA, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Núcleo de Biotecnologia, Centro de Desenvolvimento Tecnológico, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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• Xin Wang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, United States of America

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• Leila Carvalho Campos

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lccampos@bahia.fiocruz.br

  Affiliation Laboratório de Patologia e Biologia Molecular, Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, FIOCRUZ-BA, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9150-464X

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