About the Authors
- Yijun Lou
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Contributed equally to this work with: Yijun Lou, Redouane Qesmi, Qian Wang
Affiliations Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Applied Mathematics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
- Redouane Qesmi
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Contributed equally to this work with: Yijun Lou, Redouane Qesmi, Qian Wang
Affiliations Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Ecole Superieure de Technologie, Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Fès, Morocco
- Qian Wang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Yijun Lou, Redouane Qesmi, Qian Wang
Affiliation Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Marc Steben
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Affiliation Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Jianhong Wu
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Affiliations Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Centre for Disease Modelling, York Institute for Health Research, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Jane M. Heffernan
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* E-mail: jmheffer@yorku.ca
Affiliations Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Centre for Disease Modelling, York Institute for Health Research, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Competing Interests
MS has received research, lecture and travel funds from 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: QW RQ JMH JW MS. Performed the experiments: QW RQ YL JMH. Analyzed the data: QW RQ YL JMH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QW RQ TL JMH JW MS. Wrote the paper: QW RQ YL JMH JW MS.