About the Authors

Benny Borremans

bennyborremans@gmail.com

Affiliation Evolutionary Ecology Group, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Niel Hens

Affiliations Centre for Health Economics Research & Modelling Infectious Diseases (CHERMID), Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute (VAXINFECTIO), University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics (I-BIOSTAT), Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium

Philippe Beutels

Affiliation Centre for Health Economics Research & Modelling Infectious Diseases (CHERMID), Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute (VAXINFECTIO), University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Herwig Leirs

Affiliation Evolutionary Ecology Group, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Jonas Reijniers

Affiliations Evolutionary Ecology Group, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Engineering Management, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BB NH HL JR. Analyzed the data: BB JR NH. Wrote code and performed simulations: JR. Wrote the paper: BB NH PB HL JR.