About the Authors

Troy A. Skwor

Affiliation Center for Immunobiology and Vaccine Development, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America

Berna Atik

Affiliation Center for Immunobiology and Vaccine Development, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America

Raj Prasad Kandel

Affiliation Lumbini Rana-Ambika Eye Hospital, Bhairahawa, Nepal

Him Kant Adhikari

Affiliation Lumbini Rana-Ambika Eye Hospital, Bhairahawa, Nepal

Bassant Sharma

Affiliation Lumbini Rana-Ambika Eye Hospital, Bhairahawa, Nepal

Deborah Dean

ddean@chori.org

Affiliations Center for Immunobiology and Vaccine Development, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America, Lumbini Rana-Ambika Eye Hospital, Bhairahawa, Nepal, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, UCSF and UCB Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, and University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TAS DD. Performed the experiments: TAS DD. Analyzed the data: TAS BA DD. Wrote the paper: TAS DD. Clinical grading: RPK HKA BS DD.