About the Authors

Anne Cori

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

a.cori@imperial.ac.uk (AC); thibautjombart@gmail.com (TJ)

Affiliation MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Pierre Nouvellet

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

Tini Garske

Roles Methodology

Affiliation MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Hervé Bourhy

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Unit Lyssavirus Dynamics and Host Adaptation, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Rabies, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Emmanuel Nakouné

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Département fièvres hémorragiques virales, Institut Pasteur de Bangui, Bangui, République Centrafricaine

Thibaut Jombart

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

a.cori@imperial.ac.uk (AC); thibautjombart@gmail.com (TJ)

Affiliation MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.