About the Authors

Lucy C. Okell

l.okell@imperial.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modeling, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Jamie T. Griffin

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modeling, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Immo Kleinschmidt

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

T. Déirdre Hollingsworth

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modeling, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Thomas S. Churcher

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modeling, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Michael J. White

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modeling, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Teun Bousema

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infection, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Chris J. Drakeley

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infection, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Azra C. Ghani

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modeling, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

ACG has received payment for advice on malaria transmission modeling from Glaxo SmithKline. 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: LCO JTG IK TDH TSC MJW TB CJD ACG. Performed the experiments: LCO JTG. Analyzed the data: LCO JTG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LCO JTG. Wrote the paper: LCO ACG. Contributed to the writing of the paper: JTG IK TDH TSC MJW TB CJD.