About the Authors

Floris Fransen

Affiliations Laboratory of Vaccine Research, Netherlands Vaccine Institute, Bilthoven, The Netherlands, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Sebastiaan G. B. Heckenberg

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Hendrik Jan Hamstra

Affiliation Laboratory of Vaccine Research, Netherlands Vaccine Institute, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Moniek Feller

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Claire J. P. Boog

Affiliations Laboratory of Vaccine Research, Netherlands Vaccine Institute, Bilthoven, The Netherlands, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Jos P. M. van Putten

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Diederik van de Beek

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Arie van der Ende

Contributed equally to this work with: Arie van der Ende, Peter van der Ley

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Netherlands Reference Laboratory for Bacterial Meningitis, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Peter van der Ley

Contributed equally to this work with: Arie van der Ende, Peter van der Ley

peter.van.der.ley@nvi-vaccin.nl

Affiliation Laboratory of Vaccine Research, Netherlands Vaccine Institute, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FF SGBH CJB JvP DvdB AvdE PvdL. Performed the experiments: FF SGBH HJH MF. Analyzed the data: FF SGBH HJH MF DvdB AvdE PvdL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DvdB AvdE PvdL. Wrote the paper: FF SGBH CJB JvP DvdB AvdE PvdL.