About the Authors

Ayman Chit

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

ayman.chit@sanofi.com

Affiliations Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Sanofi Pasteur, Swiftwater, PA, United States of America

Hossein Zivaripiran

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada

Thomas Shin

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Sanofi Pasteur, Toronto, ON, Canada

Jason K. H. Lee

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Sanofi Pasteur, Toronto, ON, Canada

Antigona Tomovici

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sanofi Pasteur, Toronto, ON, Canada

Denis Macina

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sanofi Pasteur, Lyon, France

David R. Johnson

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sanofi Pasteur, Swiftwater, PA, United States of America

Michael D. Decker

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Sanofi Pasteur, Swiftwater, PA, United States of America, Department of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States of America

Jianhong Wu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: AC, HZ, TS, JL, AT, DJ, DM and MD were employees of Sanofi Pasteur during the conduct of the study. Sanofi Pasteur is a pharmaceutical company that manufactures pertussis vaccine. Mitacs is a not-for-profit organization that designs and funds research and training programs in Canada. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no patents, products in development, or marketed products to declare.