About the Authors
- Justin Lessler
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Steven Riley
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* E-mail: s.riley@imperial.ac.uk
Affiliation School of Public Health, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Jonathan M. Read
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Institute of Infection and Global Health, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Shuying Wang
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Affiliation Guangzhou No. 12 Hospital, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Huachen Zhu
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Affiliations International Institute of Infection and Immunity, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China, Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
- Gavin J. D. Smith
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Affiliation Laboratory of Virus Evolution, Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
- Yi Guan
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Affiliations International Institute of Infection and Immunity, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong, China, Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
- Chao Qiang Jiang
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Affiliation Guangzhou No. 12 Hospital, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- Derek A. T. Cummings
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SR DATC JMR GJDS CQJ YG. Performed the experiments: SW HZ. Analyzed the data: SR DATC JMR. Wrote the paper: JL SR JMR DATC.