1. Vaccine Evaluation Unit, Public Health England, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK
2. Laboratory Gram - Positive Coccus, Instituto de Salud Pública de Chile, Santiago, Chile
3. Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of the East – Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center, Quezon City, Philippines
4. Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
5. School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
6. Pediatric Telemedicine Service, Malvinas Children’s Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
7. Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Laval University, Quebec City, QC, Canada
8. Center for Infectious Disease Research, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, Mexico
9. Meningitis Research Foundation, Thornbury, UK
10. Governing Council, Confederation of Meningitis Organisations, Head Office, Bristol, UK
11. Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
12. Child Health Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
13. Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, Scientific Research Institute of Children’s Infections, St Petersburg, Russia
14. Department of Infection & Epidemiology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
15. Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
16. Meningococcal Reference Laboratory, Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
17. Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa
18. Department of Pediatrics, FCM da Santa Casa de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil