About the Authors

Brecht Devleesschauwer

brechtdv@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium, Insitute of Health and Society (IRSS), Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Animal Sciences and Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America

Juanita A. Haagsma

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Frederick J. Angulo

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

David C. Bellinger

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

Dana Cole

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Dörte Döpfer

Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Aamir Fazil

Affiliation Public Health Agency of Canada, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Eric M. Fèvre

Affiliations Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Leahurst Campus, Neston, United Kingdom, International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

Herman J. Gibb

Affiliation Gibb Epidemiology Consulting, Arlington, VA, United States of America

Tine Hald

Affiliation National Food Institute, Danish Technical University, Lyngby, Denmark

Martyn D. Kirk

Affiliation National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Research School of Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Robin J. Lake

Affiliation Institute of Environmental Science and Research, Christchurch, New Zealand

Charline Maertens de Noordhout

Affiliation Insitute of Health and Society (IRSS), Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

Colin D. Mathers

Affiliation Department of Health Statistics and Information Systems, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Scott A. McDonald

Affiliation Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Sara M. Pires

Affiliation National Food Institute, Danish Technical University, Lyngby, Denmark

Niko Speybroeck

Affiliation Insitute of Health and Society (IRSS), Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

M. Kate Thomas

Affiliation Public Health Agency of Canada, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Paul R. Torgerson

Affiliation Section of Epidemiology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Felicia Wu

Affiliation Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States of America

Arie H. Havelaar

Affiliations Department of Animal Sciences and Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States of America, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands

Nicolas Praet

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Competing Interests

All authors serve as members of the World Health Organization advisory body—the Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group—without remuneration. The authors declare no competing interests. Co-author Herman J. Gibb is the owner of Gibb Epidemiology Consulting. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. 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: BD JAH DC DD CMdN CDM SAM NS MKT NP. Performed the experiments: BD JAH DC DD CMdN SAM NS MKT NP. Analyzed the data: BD JAH DC DD CMdN SAM NS MKT NP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BD. Wrote the paper: BD JAH FJA DCB DC DD AF EMF HG TH MDK RJL CMdN CDM SAM SMP NS MKT PRT FW AHH NP.