Yuvaraj Jayaraman: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole:
VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Balaji Veeraraghavan: Role: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – review & editing
Girish Kumar Chethrapilly Purushothaman: Role: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Bharathy Sukumar: Role: Formal analysisRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing
– review & editing
Boopathi Kangusamy: Role: Formal analysisRole: Visualization
Ambujam Nair Kapoor: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisition
Nivedita Gupta: Role: Funding acquisitionRole: Project administration
Sanjay Madhav Mehendale:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-4034
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole:
Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Vishnu Chaturvedi: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
16
May
2018
Publication date Collection: 2018
Volume: 13
Issue: 5
Electronic Location Identifier: e0197198
Affiliations
[1
]
ICMR-National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
[2
]
Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
[3
]
Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India
Wadsworth Center, UNITED STATES
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
¶ Network Investigators details are provided in the Acknowledgments.
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Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-17-44664
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0197198
PMC ID: 5955554
PubMed ID: 29768458
SO-VID: 057d051a-9363-4a49-9b8d-7ee3d00b5825
Copyright © © 2018 Jayaraman et al
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This project was funded by Government of India, as Grant in Aid, (G.27017/02/2011-CC&V).
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Infectious Diseases
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Bacterial Diseases
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Infectious Diseases
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Infectious Diseases of the Nervous System
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Meningitis
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Bacterial Meningitis
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Infectious Diseases of the Nervous System
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Meningitis
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Bacterial Meningitis
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Inflammatory Diseases
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Meningitis
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Bacterial Meningitis
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Bacteria
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Streptococcus
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Pneumococcus
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Medical Microbiology
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Microbial Pathogens
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Bacterial Pathogens
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Streptococcus
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Pneumococcus
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Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
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