ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INFECTIOUS DISEASES, STREP
We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Elizabeth Eadie-Mirams, Renae Barr, Christine Everest, Rebecca Trowman, Jana Ilievski, David Pham, and Evelyn Carapetis in the planning, administration, and conduct of the study. We also acknowledge Lara Hatchuel, Nicola Norton, and the Linear Clinical Research team for their support in conducting the study. We thank the MAPI Research Trust and Professor Margaret Chren for the use of the Skindex-16 instruments.This research was funded by Cure Kids NZ (Grant number 7012). The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication. J.K. is supported by a Strep A PhD Scholarship and a Scholarship for International Research Fees at the University of Western Australia (UWA). T.K.H. is supported by a Post Graduate Research Scholarship at the University of Western Australia, partly funded by the Athelstan Saw Bequest Fund. S.E. is supported by a Research Program Training scholarship at UWA and a Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Top Up scholarship. L.M. and J.C. are supported by NHMRC Investigator Awards (GNT1197177 and GNT 1173874, respectively).