About the Authors

Bart Ostyn

bostyn@itg.be

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

Epco Hasker

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

Thomas P. C. Dorlo

Affiliation Division of Pharmaco-epidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Suman Rijal

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Shyam Sundar

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Jean-Claude Dujardin

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Marleen Boelaert

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BO SR SS JCD MB. Analyzed the data: BO EH TPCD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TPCD JCD. Wrote the paper: BO EH MB. Revision and final approval of the manuscript: TPCD SR SS JCD MB. Acquisition of the data: SR SS.