About the Authors

Laurent Coudeville

Affiliation sanofi pasteur, Lyon, France

Annelies Van Rie

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Denis Getsios

Affiliation United BioSource, Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America

J. Jaime Caro

Affiliations United BioSource, Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Pascal Crépey

Pascal.Crepey@sanofipasteur.com

Affiliation sanofi pasteur, Lyon, France

Van Hung Nguyen

Affiliation sanofi pasteur, Lyon, France

Competing Interests

This study was sponsored by sanofi pasteur. LC, PC and VHN are sanofi pasteur employees. They contributed with other co-authors to study design, data analysis and manuscript writing.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LC AVR DG JJC VHN. Performed the experiments: LC DG. Analyzed the data: LC AVR DG JJC PC VHN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LC AVR DG PC. Wrote the paper: LC AVR DG JJC PC VHN.