About the Authors

Adam J. Kucharski

adam.kucharski@lshtm.ac.uk

Affiliations Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States

W. John Edmunds

Affiliation Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AJK WJE. Performed the experiments: AJK. Analyzed the data: AJK WJE. Wrote the paper: AJK WJE.