About the Authors

Roger Kouyos

roger.kouyos@uzh.ch

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zürich, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Eili Klein

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, Center for Advanced Modeling, Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Bryan Grenfell

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RK EK. Performed the experiments: RK EK. Analyzed the data: RK EK. Wrote the paper: RK EK BG.