About the Authors

Dobromir Dimitrov

dobromir@scharp.org

Affiliations Vaccine & Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Marie-Claude Boily

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Elizabeth R. Brown

Affiliations Vaccine & Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Timothy B. Hallett

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DD MCB TBH. Performed the experiments: DD. Analyzed the data: DD MCB ERB TBH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DD MCB ERB TBH. Wrote the paper: DD MCB ERB TBH.