About the Authors

James M. McCaw

jamesm@unimelb.edu.au

Affiliations Vaccine and Immunisation Research Group, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Nimalan Arinaminpathy

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

Aeron C. Hurt

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Jodie McVernon

Affiliations Vaccine and Immunisation Research Group, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Angela R. McLean

Affiliation Institute for Emerging Infections, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford Martin School, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMM, ACH, JM. Performed the experiments: JMM, ACH. Analyzed the data: JMM, NA, JM, ARM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ACH. Wrote the paper: JMM. Contributed to mathematical algorithms: JMM, NA, JM, ARM.