About the Authors

Thomas J. Hladish

tjhladish@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Carl A. B. Pearson

Affiliation Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Dennis L. Chao

Current Address: Institute for Disease Modeling, Intellectual Ventures, Bellevue, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Diana Patricia Rojas

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Gabriel L. Recchia

Current Address: Centre for Digital Knowledge, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Affiliation Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Héctor Gómez-Dantés

Affiliation Health Systems Research Center, National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico

M. Elizabeth Halloran

Affiliations Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Center for Inference and Dynamics of Infectious Diseases, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Juliet R. C. Pulliam

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Ira M. Longini

Affiliations Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TJH JRCP IML MEH CABP. Performed the experiments: TJH. Analyzed the data: TJH CABP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TJH HGD CABP GLR DLC. Wrote the paper: TJH CABP JRCP DPR MEH.