About the Authors

Linda A. Selvey

linda.selvey@curtin.edu.au

Affiliation School of Public Health, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Lynne Dailey

Affiliation Independent consultant, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Michael Lindsay

Affiliation Environmental Health Directorate, WA Health, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Paul Armstrong

Affiliation Communicable Disease Control Directorate, WA Health, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Sean Tobin

Affiliation Communicable Diseases Branch, Health Protection NSW, NSW Health, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Ann P. Koehler

Affiliation Communicable Disease Control Branch, SA Department for Health and Ageing, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Peter G. Markey

Affiliation Centre for Disease Control, Department of Health, Northern Territory, Australia

David W. Smith

Affiliation School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Performed the experiments: PA APK PGM ST. Analyzed the data: LAS LD DWS ML PA. Wrote the paper: LAS DWS PA LD.