About the Authors

Sara Tartof

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Affiliation Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Amanda Cohn

Affiliation Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Félix Tarbangdo

Affiliation Direction de la Lutte Contre la Maladie, Ministère de la Santé, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Mamoudou H. Djingarey

Affiliation Intercountry Support Team for West Africa, World Health Organization, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Nancy Messonnier

Affiliation Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Thomas A. Clark

Affiliation Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jean Ludovic Kambou

Affiliation Direction de la Lutte Contre la Maladie, Ministère de la Santé, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Ryan Novak

Affiliation Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Fabien V. K. Diomandé

Affiliations Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, WHO Intercountry Support Team for West Africa, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Isaïe Medah

Affiliation Direction de la Lutte Contre la Maladie, Ministère de la Santé, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Michael L. Jackson

Affiliation Group Health Research Institute, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Revised manuscript: ST AC FT MD NM TC JK RN FD IM MJ. Conceived and designed the experiments: ST MJ AC TC NM. Performed the experiments: FT MD JK FD IM. Analyzed the data: ST AC MJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FT MD JK RN FD IM MJ. Wrote the paper: ST AC MJ NM TC MD.