About the Authors

Yuntao Bai

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuntao Bai, Zhiguang Xu, Jing Zhang

Affiliation Division of Environmental Health Sciences, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Zhiguang Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuntao Bai, Zhiguang Xu, Jing Zhang

Affiliation Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Jing Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuntao Bai, Zhiguang Xu, Jing Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Surveillance and Early-Warning on Infectious Disease, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Deqiang Mao

Affiliation Chongqing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chongqing, China

Chao Luo

Affiliation Wanzhou District Control of Diseases Prevention and Control, Chongqing, China

Yuanyuan He

Affiliation Yichang Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Yichang, Hubei Province, China

Guodong Liang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control, National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Bo Lu

Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Michael S. Bisesi

Affiliation Division of Environmental Health Sciences, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Qinghua Sun

Affiliation Division of Environmental Health Sciences, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Xinyi Xu

liuqiyong@icdc.cn (QL); yangwz@chinacdc.cn (WY); xinyi@stat.osu.edu (XX)

Affiliation Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Weizhong Yang

liuqiyong@icdc.cn (QL); yangwz@chinacdc.cn (WY); xinyi@stat.osu.edu (XX)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Surveillance and Early-Warning on Infectious Disease, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Qiyong Liu

liuqiyong@icdc.cn (QL); yangwz@chinacdc.cn (WY); xinyi@stat.osu.edu (XX)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Surveillance and Early-Warning on Infectious Disease, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China, Department of Vector Biology and Control, State Key Laboratory for Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YB ZX QS BL XX QL. Performed the experiments: YB ZX JZ. Analyzed the data: YB ZX JZ. Wrote the paper: YB ZX BL XX QS. Designed the software used in analysis: DM CL YH GL MB. Obtained permission for use of data: DM WY QL YH.