About the Authors

Sujit Suchindran

Affiliation School of Medicine, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Emily S. Brouwer

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Annelies Van Rie

vanrie@email.unc.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AVR. Analyzed the data: ESB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS AVR. Wrote the paper: SS.