Clustered intergenic region sequences as predictors of factor H Binding Protein expression patterns and for assessing Neisseria meningitidis strain coverage by meningococcal vaccines

Caroline Cayrou; Ayodeji A. Akinduko; Evgeny M. Mirkes; Jay Lucidarme; Stephen A. Clark; Luke R. Green; Helen J. Cooper; Julie Morrissey; Ray Borrow; Christopher D. Bayliss

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0197186

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Clustered intergenic region sequences as predictors of factor H Binding Protein expression patterns and for assessing Neisseria meningitidis strain coverage by meningococcal vaccines

Caroline Cayrou ,

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: cdb12@le.ac.uk (CDB); cc447@le.ac.uk (CC)

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
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Ayodeji A. Akinduko,

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
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Evgeny M. Mirkes,

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1474-1734

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Jay Lucidarme,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Meningococcal Reference Unit, Public Health England, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Stephen A. Clark,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Meningococcal Reference Unit, Public Health England, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Luke R. Green,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
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Helen J. Cooper,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Julie Morrissey,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
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Ray Borrow,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Meningococcal Reference Unit, Public Health England, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Christopher D. Bayliss

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: cdb12@le.ac.uk (CDB); cc447@le.ac.uk (CC)

Affiliation Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5564-2145

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Clustered intergenic region sequences as predictors of factor H Binding Protein expression patterns and for assessing Neisseria meningitidis strain coverage by meningococcal vaccines

Caroline Cayrou,
Ayodeji A. Akinduko,
Evgeny M. Mirkes,
Jay Lucidarme,
Stephen A. Clark,
Luke R. Green,
Helen J. Cooper,
Julie Morrissey,
Ray Borrow,
Christopher D. Bayliss

Published: May 30, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197186

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