About the Authors

Jennifer A. Gilbert

jennifer.gilbert@aya.yale.edu

Affiliations Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Jan Medlock

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Jeffrey P. Townsend

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Serap Aksoy

Affiliation Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Martial Ndeffo Mbah

Contributed equally to this work with: Martial Ndeffo Mbah, Alison P. Galvani

Affiliations Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Alison P. Galvani

Contributed equally to this work with: Martial Ndeffo Mbah, Alison P. Galvani

Affiliations Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JAG JM JPT SA MNM APG. Performed the experiments: JAG JM JPT. Analyzed the data: JAG JM JPT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JAG JM JPT. Wrote the paper: JAG JM JPT SA MNM APG.