About the Authors

Allan Saul

allan.saul@novartis.com

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines Institute for Global Health, Siena, Italy

Tom Smith

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Nicolas Maire

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following conflicts: AS is an employee of Novartis, holds shares in Novartis and is an inventor on patents relating to Typhoid vaccines. Although this paper does not directly describe the use of typhoid vaccines, the intent is that the model described in this paper will be used for evaluating vaccine strategies. TS is an an academic editor of PLOS ONE. NM declares no competing interests exist. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS TS NM. Analyzed the data: AS TS NM. Wrote the paper: AS TS NM.