About the Authors

Eben Kenah

ekenah@ufl.edu

Current Address: University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Affiliations Biostatistics Department and Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Center for Inference and Dynamics of Infectious Diseases, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Tom Britton

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

M. Elizabeth Halloran

Affiliations Center for Inference and Dynamics of Infectious Diseases, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Ira M. Longini Jr

Affiliations Biostatistics Department and Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Center for Inference and Dynamics of Infectious Diseases, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EK TB MEH IML. Performed the experiments: EK. Analyzed the data: EK. Wrote the paper: EK TB MEH IML.