About the Authors

Eline L. M. Op de Coul

Contributed equally to this work with: Eline L. M. Op de Coul, Imke Schreuder

Affiliation Centre for Infectious Diseases Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Imke Schreuder

Contributed equally to this work with: Eline L. M. Op de Coul, Imke Schreuder

Affiliations Centre for Infectious Diseases Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands, Department of ViroScience, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Stefano Conti

Affiliation Statistics, Modelling and Economics Department, Public Health England, London, United Kingdom

Ard van Sighem

Affiliation Stichting HIV Monitoring, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Maria Xiridou

Affiliation Centre for Infectious Diseases Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Maaike G. Van Veen

Affiliation Cluster Infectious Diseases, STI clinic department, Amsterdam Health Service, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Janneke C. M. Heijne

janneke.heijne@rivm.nl

Affiliation Centre for Infectious Diseases Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JCMH EC IS SC MGVV. Performed the experiments: JCMH EC IS. Analyzed the data: JCMH EC IS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JCMH EC IS SC AS MGVV MX. Wrote the paper: EC IS JCMH. Critically revised the manuscript: JCMH EC IS SC AS MGVV MX. Approved the final version of the manuscript: All authors.