Characterization of strains of Neisseria meningitidis causing meningococcal meningitis in Mozambique, 2014: Implications for vaccination against meningococcal meningitis

• Alcides Moniz Munguambe ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mguambendole@yahoo.com.br

  Affiliation Microbiology Laboratory, National Institute of Health, Ministry of Health, Maputo, Mozambique

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2201-7343

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• António Eugénio Castro Cardoso de Almeida,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Reference Microorganisms, National Institute of Quality Control of Health (INCQS); Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Aquino Albino Nhantumbo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Microbiology Laboratory, National Institute of Health, Ministry of Health, Maputo, Mozambique

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• Charlotte Elizabeth Come,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Microbiology Laboratory, National Institute of Health, Ministry of Health, Maputo, Mozambique

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• Tomás Francisco Zimba,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Maputo Central Hospital, Maputo, Mozambique

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• José Paulo Langa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Microbiology Laboratory, National Institute of Health, Ministry of Health, Maputo, Mozambique

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• Ivano de Filippis ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ivano de Filippis, Eduardo Samo Gudo

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Reference Microorganisms, National Institute of Quality Control of Health (INCQS); Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Eduardo Samo Gudo

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ivano de Filippis, Eduardo Samo Gudo

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute of Health, Ministry of Health, Maputo, Mozambique

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