Ladhani, Shamez N. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0856-2476
Campbell, Helen
Lucidarme, Jay
Gray, Steve
Parikh, Sydel
Willerton, Laura
Clark, Stephen A.
Lekshmi, Aiswarya
Walker, Andrew
Patel, Sima
Bai, Xilian
Ramsay, Mary
Borrow, Ray
Article History
Received: 23 January 2019
Accepted: 30 May 2019
First Online: 14 June 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
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: Not applicable.
: AL, AW, JL, LW, RB, SAC, SG, SL, SP and XB perform contract research on behalf of Public Health England for GSK, Pfizer and Sanofi Pasteur. All other authors: no conflict.