About the Authors

James E. Fielding

james.fielding@mh.org.au

Affiliations Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Victorian Government Department of Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Isabel Bergeri

Affiliation Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Nasra Higgins

Affiliation Victorian Government Department of Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Heath A. Kelly

Affiliations Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Julian Meagher

Affiliation Victorian Government Department of Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Emma S. McBryde

Affiliations Victorian Government Department of Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Rodney Moran

Affiliation Victorian Government Department of Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Margaret E. Hellard

Affiliations Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Rosemary A. Lester

Affiliation Victorian Government Department of Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JEF IB HAK MEH. Performed the experiments: JEF NH JM RM RAL. Analyzed the data: JEF IB NH JM ESM. Wrote the paper: JEF HAK.