Layan Sukik: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review
& editing
Maryam Alyafei: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review
& editing
Manale Harfouche: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review
& editing
Laith J. Abu-Raddad:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0790-0506
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SoftwareRole: SupervisionRole:
ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review
& editing
Remco PH Peters: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
22
April
2019
Publication date Collection: 2019
Volume: 14
Issue: 4
Electronic Location Identifier: e0215487
Affiliations
[1
]
Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Cornell University,
Qatar Foundation—Education City, Doha, Qatar
[2
]
Department of Health Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
[3
]
Department of Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University,
New York, New York, United States of America
[4
]
College of Health and Life Sciences, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar
University of Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-18-36888
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215487
PMC ID: 6476500
PubMed ID: 31009486
SO-VID: e298c146-c1a3-4c0a-98c9-c7af0aba82b7
Copyright © © 2019 Sukik et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100008982, Qatar National Research Fund;
Award ID: NPRP grant number 9-040-3-008
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0790-0506
Laith J. Abu-Raddad
Funded by: Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar
Award ID: Biomedical Research Program Pilot Funding
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0790-0506
Laith J. Abu-Raddad
This publication was made possible by NPRP grant number 9-040-3-008 from the Qatar
National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation) to LJA-R. The statements made
herein are solely the responsibility of the authors. The authors are also grateful
for pilot funding provided by the Biomedical Research Program and infrastructure support
provided by the Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Biomathematics Research Core, both
at Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar to LJA-R.