About the Authors

Virginia E. Pitzer

virginia.pitzer@yale.edu

Current address: Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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

Katherine E. Atkins

Contributed equally to this work with: Katherine E. Atkins, Birgitte Freiesleben de Blasio, Thierry Van Effelterre

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Birgitte Freiesleben de Blasio

Contributed equally to this work with: Katherine E. Atkins, Birgitte Freiesleben de Blasio, Thierry Van Effelterre

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Department of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

Thierry Van Effelterre

Contributed equally to this work with: Katherine E. Atkins, Birgitte Freiesleben de Blasio, Thierry Van Effelterre

Affiliation Global Vaccine Development, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Wavre, Belgium

Christina J. Atchison

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

John P. Harris

Affiliation Centre for Infections, Department of Gastrointestinal, Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, Health Protection Agency, London, United Kingdom

Eunha Shim

Affiliation Deparment of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Alison P. Galvani

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

W. John Edmunds

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Cécile Viboud

Affiliation Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Manish M. Patel

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

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

Umesh D. Parashar

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

Ben A. Lopman

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

Competing Interests

K.E.A., E.S., and A.P.G. work as consultants for Sanofi Pasteur, MSD. T.V.E. is an employee of GlaxoSmithKline. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VEP BFB TVE CJA WJE CV MMP BTG UDP BAL. Performed the experiments: VEP KEA BFB TVE BAL. Analyzed the data: VEP KEA BFB TVE BAL ES APG WJE CV MMP BTG UDP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JPH. Wrote the paper: VEP KEA BFB TVE BAL ES APG WJE CV MMP BTG UDP CJA JPH.