About the Authors
- Rebecca F Baggaley
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: rebecca.baggaley@hpa.org.uk
¤ Current address: Statistics, Modelling, and Bioinformatics Department, Health Protection Agency, London, United Kingdom
Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
- Geoff P Garnett
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
- Neil M Ferguson
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
: RFB was supported by an unrestricted educational grant from GlaxoSmithKline.
Author Contributions
RFB, GPG, and NMF were involved in the conception and design of the mathematical model and analysis of model results. RFB drafted the manuscript and programmed the model, and GPG and NMF reviewed the work and gave comments at each stage. RFB, GPG, and NMF gave final approval for submission.