About the Authors
- Kim M. Pepin
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Affiliations Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
- Jia Wang
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Affiliations International Institution of Infection and Immunity, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, People’s Republic of China, State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China
- Colleen T. Webb
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Affiliation Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
- Jennifer A. Hoeting
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Affiliation Department of Statistics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
- Mary Poss
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Affiliation Department of Biology, Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Peter J. Hudson
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Affiliation Department of Biology, Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Wenshan Hong
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Affiliation International Institution of Infection and Immunity, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, People’s Republic of China
- Huachen Zhu
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Affiliations International Institution of Infection and Immunity, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, People’s Republic of China, State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China
- Yi Guan
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* E-mail: s.riley@imperial.ac.uk (SR); yguan@hkucc.hku.hk (YG)
Affiliations International Institution of Infection and Immunity, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, People’s Republic of China, State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China
- Steven Riley
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* E-mail: s.riley@imperial.ac.uk (SR); yguan@hkucc.hku.hk (YG)
Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Contributed concepts: MP PJH CTW SR. Contributed feedback on analyses: CTW SR JAH. Organized the collaboration: SR. Conceived and designed the experiments: KMP JW CTW MP PJH WH HZ YG SR. Performed the experiments: JW WH HZ YG. Analyzed the data: KMP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YG. Wrote the paper: KMP.