About the Authors

Cuong Hoang Quoc

Contributed equally to this work with: Cuong Hoang Quoc, Salje Henrik

cuonghqpasteur@gmail.com

Affiliations Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, 167 Pasteur, district 3, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Salje Henrik

Contributed equally to this work with: Cuong Hoang Quoc, Salje Henrik

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases Unit, Institute Pasteur, Paris, France, CNRS, URA3012, Paris, France, Center of Bioinformatics, Biostatistics and Integrative Biology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Rodriguez-Barraquer Isabel

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Yoon In-Kyu

Affiliations International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand

Nguyen Van Vinh Chau

Affiliation Hospital for Tropical Diseases, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Nguyen Thanh Hung

Affiliation Children’s Hospital No. 1, District 10, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Ha Manh Tuan

Affiliation Children’s Hospital No. 2, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Phan Trong Lan

Affiliation Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, 167 Pasteur, district 3, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Bridget Willis

Affiliation Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Ananda Nisalak

Affiliation Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand

Siripen Kalayanarooj

Affiliation Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health, Bangkok, Thailand

Derek A. T. Cummings

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Cameron P. Simmons

Affiliations Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, at the Peter Doherty Institute, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HQC HS DATC CPS. Analyzed the data: HS HQC IRB DATC CPS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HQC HS IKY NVVC HNT HMT PTL BW AN SK DATC CPS. Wrote the paper: HS HQC IRB BW DATC CPS.