About the Authors

Eva Santermans

eva.santermans@uhasselt.be

Affiliation Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium

Emmanuel Robesyn

Affiliation European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden

Tapiwa Ganyani

Affiliation Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium

Bertrand Sudre

Affiliation European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden

Christel Faes

Affiliation Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium

Chantal Quinten

Affiliation European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden

Wim Van Bortel

Affiliation European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden

Tom Haber

Affiliation Expertise centre for Digital Media, iMinds, tUL, Diepenbeek, Belgium

Thomas Kovac

Affiliations Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium, Expertise centre for Digital Media, iMinds, tUL, Diepenbeek, Belgium

Frank Van Reeth

Affiliation Expertise centre for Digital Media, iMinds, tUL, Diepenbeek, Belgium

Marco Testa

Affiliations European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Public Health, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Niel Hens

Affiliations Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium, Centre for Health Economics Research and Modelling Infectious Diseases, Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Diamantis Plachouras

Affiliation European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following competing interests: Co-author Niel Hens received support from the University of Antwerp scientific chair in Evidence-Based Vaccinology, financed in 2009–2014 by a gift from Pfizer. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: ES CF TK TH FVR NH. Wrote the paper: ES ER BS CQ NH DP. Data collection: MT. Data interpretation: ES ER BS CF CQ WVB NH DP. Literature search: TG.