Tracking a serial killer: Integrating phylogenetic relationships, epidemiology, and geography for two invasive meningococcal disease outbreaks

• Ifeoma Ezeoke ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ifeoma Ezeoke, Madeline R. Galac

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

  Affiliation Bureau of Communicable Disease, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Madeline R. Galac ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ifeoma Ezeoke, Madeline R. Galac

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

  Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, United States of America

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• Ying Lin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bureau of Public Health Laboratory, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Alvin T. Liem,

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

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, US Army Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, United States of America, DCS Corporation, Alexandria, VA, United States of America

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• Pierce A. Roth,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, US Army Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, United States of America, DCS Corporation, Alexandria, VA, United States of America

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• Andrew Kilianski,

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

  Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, United States of America

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• Henry S. Gibbons,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, US Army Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, United States of America

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• Danielle Bloch,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bureau of Communicable Disease, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY, United States of America

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• John Kornblum,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bureau of Public Health Laboratory, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Paula Del Rosso,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bureau of Communicable Disease, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Daniel A. Janies,

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

  Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, United States of America

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• Don Weiss

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

  * E-mail: DWeiss@health.nyc.gov

  Affiliation Bureau of Communicable Disease, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5898-4565

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