1. Biologic Evaluation Department, Finlay Institute of Vaccines, Havana, Cuba
2. Meningococcal Reference Unit, Public Health England, Manchester, UK
3. Division of Infection Control and Environmental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
4. Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of the East – Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center, Quezon City, Philippines
5. Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
6. Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
7. Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Laval University, Quebec City, QC, Canada
8. Department of Paediatrics, Eskisehir Osmangazi University Faculty of Medicine, Eskisehir, Turkey
9. Center for Research on Infectious Diseases, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, México
10. Infectious Diseases Control, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
11. Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
12. Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
13. Division of Public Health Surveillance and Response, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa
14. Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Moscow, Russian Federation
15. Department of Pediatrics, FCM Santa Casa de São Paulo School of Medical Sciences, São Paulo, Brazil
16. National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
17. Meningitis Research Foundation, Bristol, UK
18. Department of Epidemiology and Prevention of Infectious Diseases, WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers’ Health, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
19. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden
20. Institut Pasteur, National Reference Centre for Meningococci, Paris, France
21. National Centre of Microbiology, Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain