About the Authors

Ruian Ke

Affiliations Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Sharon R. Lewin

Affiliations The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Department of Infectious Diseases, Alfred Hospital and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, Centre for Biomedical Research, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia

Julian H Elliott

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Alfred Hospital and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Alan S. Perelson

asp@lanl.gov

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RK SRL JHE ASP. Performed the experiments: RK. Analyzed the data: RK ASP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RK SRL JHE ASP. Wrote the paper: RK SRL ASP.