About the Authors

Stefano Merler

merler@fbk.eu

Affiliation Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento Povo, Italy

Marco Ajelli

Affiliation Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento Povo, Italy

Andrea Pugliese

Affiliation Mathematics Department, University of Trento, Trento Povo, Italy

Neil M. Ferguson

Affiliation MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SM AP NMF. Performed the experiments: SM MA. Analyzed the data: SM MA AP NMF. Wrote the paper: SM MA AP NMF.