About the Authors

Mohammad Sorowar Hossain

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sorowar.hossain@brfbd.org

Affiliations Biomedical Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh, School of Environmental Science and Management, Independent University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Bangladesh University of Health Sciences, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Md. Mahbub Hasan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biomedical Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh

Muhammad Sougatul Islam

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biomedical Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Salequl Islam

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biomedical Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Department of Microbiology, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Miliva Mozaffor

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biomedical Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Uttara Women Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Md. Abdullah Saeed Khan

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biomedical Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Department of Medicine, Rajshahi Medical College Hospital, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Nova Ahmed

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biomedical Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Waheed Akhtar

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biomedical Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh, National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Shahanaz Chowdhury

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bangladesh University of Health Sciences, Dhaka, Bangladesh

S. M. Yasir Arafat

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biomedical Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Department of Psychiatry, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Md. Abdul Khaleque

Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Environmental Science and Management, Independent University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Zohora Jameela Khan

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biomedical Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dhaka Medical College and Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Tashmim Farhana Dipta

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biomedical Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in Diabetes, Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Shah Md. Zahurul Haque Asna

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bangladesh University of Health Sciences, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Md. Akram Hossain

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, National Institute of Preventive & Social Medicine, Dhaka, Bangladesh

KM Sultanul Aziz

Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biomedical Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Abdullah Al Mosabbir

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biomedical Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sir Salimullah Medical College Mitford Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Enayetur Raheem

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biomedical Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.