About the Authors

Martin J. Callaghan

Contributed equally to this work with: Martin J. Callaghan, Caroline O. Buckee

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine (CCVTM), Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

Caroline O. Buckee

Contributed equally to this work with: Martin J. Callaghan, Caroline O. Buckee

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Keith A. Jolley

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

Paula Kriz

Affiliation National Reference Laboratory for Meningococcal Infections, National Institute of Public Health, Prague, Czech Republic

Martin C. J. Maiden

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

Sunetra Gupta

sunetra.gupta@zoo.ox.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

MCJM is named as an inventor and MJC as a contributor on patent applications in the area of serogroup B meningococcal vaccine development. No other authors report conflicts of interest.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MC CB KJ PK MM SG. Performed the experiments: MC CB. Analyzed the data: MC CB KJ MM SG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MC CB KJ PK MM. Wrote the paper: MC CB KJ PK MM SG.