About the Authors

Dinesh Mondal

din63d@icddrb.org

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Laboratory Sciences Division, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Shri Prakash Singh

Affiliation Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Narendra Kumar

Affiliation Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR), Bihar, India

Anand Joshi

Affiliation Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Shyam Sundar

Affiliation Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Pradeep Das

Affiliation Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR), Bihar, India

Hirve Siddhivinayak

Affiliation Vadu Rural Health Programme, Pune, India

Axel Kroeger

Affiliations Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Marleen Boelaert

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DM SPS NK ABJ SS PD HS AK MB. Performed the experiments: DM SPS NK ABJ SS PD HS AK MB. Analyzed the data: DM SPS NK ABJ SS PD HS AK MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DM SPS NK ABJ SS PD HS AK MB. Wrote the paper: DM SPS NK ABJ SS PD HS AK MB.