Demographic and pathogen characteristics of incident bacterial meningitis in infants in South Africa: A cohort study

• Yannick Nkiambi Kiakuvue,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and biostatistics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7175-6409

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• Sumaya Mall,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and biostatistics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Nelesh Govender,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliations School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and biostatistics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa, Division of Public Health Surveillance and Response, National Institute for Communicable Disease, a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, Division of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, MRC Centre for Medical Mycology, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7869-9462

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• Anne von Gottberg,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliations School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and biostatistics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Centre for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance and Mycoses, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Rudzani Mashau,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Centre for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance and Mycoses, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Susan Meiring,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Cheryl Cohen

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  * E-mail: cherylc@nicd.ac.za

  Affiliations School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and biostatistics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Centre for Healthcare-Associated Infections, Antimicrobial Resistance and Mycoses, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0376-2302

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