About the Authors

Jacob John

Contributed equally to this work with: Jacob John, Carola J. C. Van Aart

jacob@cmcsph.org

Affiliation Department of Community Health, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Carola J. C. Van Aart

Contributed equally to this work with: Jacob John, Carola J. C. Van Aart

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Nicholas C. Grassly

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exists.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JJ CJCVA NCG. Performed the experiments: CJCVA JJ NCG. Analyzed the data: CJCVA JJ NCG. Wrote the paper: JJ CJCVA NCG.