Molecular Epidemiology of Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup B in Brazil

• Ivano de Filippis,

  Affiliations National Quality Control Institute (INCQS), Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Laboratory of Bacterial Polysaccharides, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Epidemiology Unit, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Ana Paula S. de Lemos,

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Instituto Adolfo Lutz (IAL), São Paolo, Brazil

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• Jessica B. Hostetler,

  Current address: National Institutes of Health Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program, United Kingdom

  Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Kurt Wollenberg,

  Affiliation Office of Cyberinfrastructure and Computational Biology (OCICB), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Claudio T. Sacchi,

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paolo, Brazil

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• Lee H. Harrison,

  Affiliation Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Research Unit, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Margaret C. Bash ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Margaret C. Bash, D. Rebecca Prevots

  Affiliation Laboratory of Bacterial Polysaccharides, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• D. Rebecca Prevots

  Contributed equally to this work with: Margaret C. Bash, D. Rebecca Prevots

  * E-mail: rprevots@niaid.nih.gov

  Affiliation Epidemiology Unit, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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