About the Authors

Amanda Ross

amanda.ross@unibas.ch

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Melissa Penny

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Nicolas Maire

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Alain Studer

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Ilona Carneiro

Affiliation Disease Control and Vector Biology Unit, Department of Infectious and Tropical Disease, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

David Schellenberg

Affiliation Disease Control and Vector Biology Unit, Department of Infectious and Tropical Disease, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Brian Greenwood

Affiliation Disease Control and Vector Biology Unit, Department of Infectious and Tropical Disease, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Marcel Tanner

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Thomas Smith

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AR. Wrote the paper: AR MP TS. Developed the model: AR MP. Developed the software: NM AS. Reviewed the paper: IC DS BG MT. Developed the study: IC DS BG MT.