About the Authors
- Zitta B. Harboe
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Contributed equally to this work with: Zitta B. Harboe, Palle Valentiner-Branth
* E-mail: zit@ssi.dk
Affiliation Neisseria and Streptococcus Reference Center, Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, Statens Serum Institut (SSI), Copenhagen, Denmark
- Palle Valentiner-Branth
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Contributed equally to this work with: Zitta B. Harboe, Palle Valentiner-Branth
Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Statens Serum Institut (SSI), Copenhagen, Denmark
- Helene Ingels
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Affiliation Neisseria and Streptococcus Reference Center, Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, Statens Serum Institut (SSI), Copenhagen, Denmark
- Jeppe N. Rasmussen
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Statens Serum Institut (SSI), Copenhagen, Denmark
- Peter H. S. Andersen
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Statens Serum Institut (SSI), Copenhagen, Denmark
- Catherine C. Bjerre
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Statens Serum Institut (SSI), Copenhagen, Denmark
- David Goldblatt
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Affiliation Immunobiology Unit, University College London Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom
- Lindsey Ashton
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Affiliation Immunobiology Unit, University College London Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom
- Mitch Haston
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Affiliation Immunobiology Unit, University College London Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom
- Helle B. Konradsen
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Affiliation Neisseria and Streptococcus Reference Center, Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, Statens Serum Institut (SSI), Copenhagen, Denmark
- Lotte Lambertsen
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Affiliation Neisseria and Streptococcus Reference Center, Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, Statens Serum Institut (SSI), Copenhagen, Denmark
- on behalf of the Danish Pneumococcal Surveillance Collaborating Group
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¶Membership of the Danish Pneumococcal Surveillance Collaborating Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Culture, identification and submission of isolates and clinical samples from the departments of clinical microbiology across the country to the Neisseria and Streptococci Reference Center, Statens Serum Institut: Danish Pneumococcal Surveillance Collaborating Group. Conceived and designed the experiments: ZBH PVB PHA DG HBK LL. Performed the experiments: ZBH PVB HI PHA JNR DG LA MH LL HBK. Analyzed the data: ZBH PVB HI JNR PHA CCB DG LA MH HBK LL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Danish Pneumococcal Surveillance Collaborating Group. Wrote the paper: ZBH PVB.