Characterization of meningococcal carriage isolates from Greece by whole genome sequencing: Implications for 4CMenB vaccine implementation

• Konstantinos Kesanopoulos,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation National Meningitis Reference Laboratory (NMRL), Dept of Public Health, National School of Public Health, Athens, Greece

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• Holly B. Bratcher,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, Peter Medawar Building, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Eva Hong,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Institute Pasteur, Invasive Bacterial Infections Unit, Paris, France

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• Athanasia Xirogianni,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation National Meningitis Reference Laboratory (NMRL), Dept of Public Health, National School of Public Health, Athens, Greece

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• Anastasia Papandreou,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation National Meningitis Reference Laboratory (NMRL), Dept of Public Health, National School of Public Health, Athens, Greece

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• Muhamed-Kheir Taha,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute Pasteur, Invasive Bacterial Infections Unit, Paris, France

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• Martin C. J. Maiden,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, Peter Medawar Building, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Georgina Tzanakaki

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gtzanakaki@esdy.edu.gr

  Affiliation National Meningitis Reference Laboratory (NMRL), Dept of Public Health, National School of Public Health, Athens, Greece

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1773-2833

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