About the Authors

John Glasser

jglasser@cdc.gov

Affiliation National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Denis Taneri

Affiliation National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Zhilan Feng

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Jen-Hsiang Chuang

Affiliation Epidemic Intelligence Center, Centers for Disease Control, Taipei, Taiwan

Peet Tüll

Affiliation Scientific Advice Unit, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden

William Thompson

Affiliation National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Mary Mason McCauley

Affiliation National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

James Alexander

Affiliation National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JWG DT ZF WT. Performed the experiments: JWG. Analyzed the data: JWG JHC PT WT MMM JA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DT ZF JHC WT. Wrote the paper: JWG. Revised the manuscript: JHC PT WT MMM JA.