About the Authors

Gail E. Potter

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

gpotter@emmes.com

Affiliations The Emmes Company, Rockville, MD, United States of America, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States of America

Jimmy Wong

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States of America

Jonathan Sugimoto

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Aldiouma Diallo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Niakhar, Senegal

John C. Victor

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation PATH, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Kathleen Neuzil

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Maryland Center for Vaccine Development, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

M. Elizabeth Halloran

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Competing Interests

GEP is currently employed by the Emmes Company. The Emmes Company was contracted to perform data cleaning and data analysis of the clinical trial data (but not the social contact network data) for this study before GEP joined the Emmes Company (in October 2015). After GEP joined the Emmes Company, the sole support from Emmes for this social network analysis manuscript was in the form of salary support for GEP. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors have declared no COI.