About the Authors

Silvie Huijben

silviehuijben@gmail.com (SH); a.read@psu.edu (AFR)

Current address: CRESIB - Barcelona Centre for International Health Research, Barcelona, Spain.

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Departments of Biology and Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Andrew S. Bell

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Departments of Biology and Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Derek G. Sim

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Departments of Biology and Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Danielle Tomasello

Current address: Neuroscience Program, The State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America.

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Departments of Biology and Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nicole Mideo

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Departments of Biology and Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Troy Day

Affiliation Departments of Mathematics, Statistics and Biology, Jeffery Hall, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Andrew F. Read

silviehuijben@gmail.com (SH); a.read@psu.edu (AFR)

Affiliations Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Departments of Biology and Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH ASB NM AFR. Performed the experiments: SH ASB DGS DT. Analyzed the data: SH ASB. Wrote the paper: SH TD AFR. Performed within-host mathematical model: NM.