About the Authors

Adam J. Kucharski

adam.kucharski@lshtm.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Sebastian Funk

Affiliation Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Rosalind M. Eggo

Affiliation Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Henri-Pierre Mallet

Affiliation Bureau de Veille Sanitaire, Direction de la Santé, Polynésie française

W. John Edmunds

Affiliation Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Eric J. Nilles

Affiliation World Health Organization, Suva, Fiji

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AJK SF RME WJE. Performed the experiments: AJK. Analyzed the data: AJK SF RME HPM WJE EJN. Wrote the paper: AJK SF RME HPM WJE EJN.