About the Authors
- Lander Willem
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* E-mail: lander.willem@ua.ac.be
Affiliations Center for Health Economics Research & Modeling of Infectious Diseases, Center for the Evaluation of Vaccinations, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
- Kim Van Kerckhove
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Affiliation Interuniversitary Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics (I-BioStat), Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Dennis L. Chao
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Affiliation Center for Statistics and Quantitative Infectious Diseases, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Niel Hens
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Affiliations Center for Health Economics Research & Modeling of Infectious Diseases, Center for the Evaluation of Vaccinations, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Interuniversitary Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics (I-BioStat), Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Philippe Beutels
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Affiliations Center for Health Economics Research & Modeling of Infectious Diseases, Center for the Evaluation of Vaccinations, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Competing Interests
NH acknowledges support from the University of Antwerp scientific chair in Evidence-Based Vaccinology, financed in 2009–2012 by a gift from Pfizer. 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: LW DC NH PB. Performed the experiments: LW KV NH PB. Analyzed the data: LW NH. Wrote the paper: LW NH PB.