About the Authors

Peter J. Dodd

peter.dodd@imperial.ac.uk

Affiliation MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Neil M. Ferguson

Affiliation MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PJD. Performed the experiments: PJD. Analyzed the data: PJD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NMF. Wrote the paper: PJD NMF.