About the Authors

Melissa A. Penny

Affiliations Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Public Health & Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Nicolas Maire

Affiliations Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Public Health & Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Alain Studer

Affiliations Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Public Health & Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Allan Schapira

Affiliations Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Public Health & Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Thomas A. Smith

Thomas-A.Smith@unibas.ch

Affiliations Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Public Health & Epidemiology, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MAP NM TS. Analyzed the data: MAP NM. Wrote the paper: MAP NM TS. Interpretation of the results: MP NM TS. Editing of the manuscript: ASchapira. Programming the simulations: AStuder NM. Running the simulations: AStuder NM. Programming: MP.