About the Authors

James Truscott

j.truscott@imperial.ac.uk

Affiliation MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Neil M. Ferguson

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JT NMF. Performed the experiments: JT. Analyzed the data: JT. Wrote the paper: JT NMF.