James Thompson:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7497-3003
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole:
InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SoftwareRole: SupervisionRole:
ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review
& editing
Stephen Wattam: Role: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: SoftwareRole:
ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – review & editing
Martin Chtolongo Simuunza: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS One
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date Collection: 2021
Publication date
(Electronic):
17
December
2021
Publication date PMC-release: 17
December
2021
Volume: 16
Issue: 12
Electronic Location Identifier: e0261330
Affiliations
[1
]
Dept. of Mathematics, University of Luxembourg, Esch sur Alzette, Luxembourg
[2
]
W&P Academic Consultancy, Manchester, United Kingdom
University of Zambia, ZAMBIA
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-21-09294
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0261330
PMC ID: 8683038
PubMed ID: 34919576
SO-VID: f2be5b45-a8d1-4c50-9558-17c5e19dccf8
Copyright © © 2021 Thompson, Wattam
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
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the original author and source are credited.
Funded by:
funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001866, Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg;
Award ID: COVID-19/2020-2/14858807/ABMLUX
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7497-3003
James Thompson
This project was funded by a grant from the COVID-19 Fast-Track program of the Fonds
National de la Recherche Luxembourg (
https://www.fnr.lu/), with the grant being awarded to Dr. J. Thompson. The reference number for this
project is: COVID-19/2020-2/14858807/ABMLUX The funder provided support in the form
of salary for Dr. S. Wattam, but did not have any role in the study design, data collection
and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specific
roles of authors are articulated in the ‘Author Contributions’ section. One of the
authors, Dr. S. Wattam, is affiliated with a commercial company, W&P Academic Consultancy,
but we declare that no competing interests resulted from this. In particular, this
affiliation does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and
materials.
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