About the Authors

Joke Bilcke

joke.bilcke@ua.ac.be

Affiliation Centre for Health Economics Research & Modeling of Infectious Diseases (CHERMID), Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccinations (CEV), Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute (VAXINFECTIO), University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Antwerp, Belgium

Pierre Van Damme

Affiliation Centre for Health Economics Research & Modeling of Infectious Diseases (CHERMID), Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccinations (CEV), Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute (VAXINFECTIO), University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Antwerp, Belgium

Marc Van Ranst

Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Niel Hens

Affiliations Centre for Health Economics Research & Modeling of Infectious Diseases (CHERMID), Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccinations (CEV), Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute (VAXINFECTIO), University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Antwerp, Belgium, Interuniversitary Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics (I-BioStat), Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium

Marc Aerts

Affiliation Interuniversitary Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics (I-BioStat), Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium

Philippe Beutels

Affiliations Centre for Health Economics Research & Modeling of Infectious Diseases (CHERMID), Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccinations (CEV), Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute (VAXINFECTIO), University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Antwerp, Belgium, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: JB NH MA. Wrote the paper: JB. Conception and design of the review, acquisition of data, interpretation of data: JB. Substantial contribution to the acquisition of data: PVD MVR PB. Substantial contribution to conception and design of the review, interpretation of data, critical revision of the paper: PVD MVR MA NH PB.