Genomic analysis of the meningococcal ST-4821 complex–Western clade, potential sexual transmission and predicted antibiotic susceptibility and vaccine coverage

• Jay Lucidarme ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jay Lucidarme, Bingqing Zhu

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jay.lucidarme@phe.gov.uk (JL); shaozhujun@icdc.cn (ZS)

  Affiliation Meningococcal Reference Unit, Public Health England, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5553-2512

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• Bingqing Zhu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jay Lucidarme, Bingqing Zhu

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, PR China

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• Li Xu,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, PR China

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• Xilian Bai,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Meningococcal Reference Unit, Public Health England, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, United Kingdom

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• Yuan Gao,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, PR China

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• Juan José González-López,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain

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• Robert Mulhall,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Irish Meningitis and Sepsis Reference Laboratory, Children’s Health Ireland at Temple Street, Dublin, Ireland

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• Kevin J. Scott,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bacterial Respiratory Infection Service, Scottish Microbiology Reference Laboratory, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3338-9967

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• Andrew Smith,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Bacterial Respiratory Infection Service, Scottish Microbiology Reference Laboratory, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, United Kingdom, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, Glasgow Dental Hospital & School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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• Paola Stefanelli,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

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• Bianca Stenmark,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4637-8626

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• Paul Torpiano,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Child and Adolescent Health, Mater Dei Hospital, Msida, Malta

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• Georgina Tzanakaki,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Meningitis Reference Laboratory, Dept. of Public Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece

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• Ray Borrow,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Meningococcal Reference Unit, Public Health England, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0691-6568

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• Zhujun Shao

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jay.lucidarme@phe.gov.uk (JL); shaozhujun@icdc.cn (ZS)

  Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, PR China

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