About the Authors

Solen Kernéis

Affiliations Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris6, UMR-S 707, Paris, France, INSERM, UMR-S 707, Paris, France

Rebecca F. Grais

Affiliations Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris6, UMR-S 707, Paris, France, INSERM, UMR-S 707, Paris, France

Pierre-Yves Boëlle

Affiliations Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris6, UMR-S 707, Paris, France, INSERM, UMR-S 707, Paris, France

Antoine Flahault

Affiliations Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris6, UMR-S 707, Paris, France, INSERM, UMR-S 707, Paris, France

Elisabeta Vergu

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: elisabeta.vergu@jouy.inra.fr

Affiliation INRA, UR341 Mathématiques et Informatique Appliquées, Jouy-en-Josas, France

Competing Interests

Elisabeta Vergu, Rebecca F. Grais, Pierre-Yves Boëlle and Antoine Flahault have received fees for consultancies from Sanofi Pasteur in the past five years. Antoine Flahault has received a research grant from Novartis vaccines.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EV SK RG AF. Performed the experiments: EV SK. Analyzed the data: EV SK RG PB. Wrote the paper: EV SK RG PB AF.