About the Authors

Benjamin A. Lopman

blopman@cdc.gov

Affiliation National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Virginia E. Pitzer

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Rajiv Sarkar

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Beryl Gladstone

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Manish Patel

Affiliation National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

John Glasser

Affiliation National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Manoj Gambhir

Affiliations National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, MRC Center for Outbreaks Analysis and Modelling, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Christina Atchison

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Bryan T. Grenfell

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

W. John Edmunds

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Gagandeep Kang

Affiliation MRC Center for Outbreaks Analysis and Modelling, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Umesh D. Parashar

Affiliation National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BAL VEP BTG WJE UDP. Performed the experiments: BAL VEP MG. Analyzed the data: BAL VEP MG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RS BG CA GK JG MG GK. Wrote the paper: BAL VEP MP JG MP BTG WJE GK UDP.