About the Authors

Prashant Singh

Contributed equally to this work with: Prashant Singh, Nitya Wadhwa

Affiliations Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Gurgaon, India, Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Nitya Wadhwa

Contributed equally to this work with: Prashant Singh, Nitya Wadhwa

Affiliations Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Gurgaon, India, Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Rakesh Lodha

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Halvor Sommerfelt

Affiliations Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health (CISMAC), Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of International Public Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

Satinder Aneja

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Kalawati Saran Children’s Hospital, New Delhi, India

Uma Chandra Mouli Natchu

Affiliation Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Gurgaon, India

Jagdish Chandra

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Kalawati Saran Children’s Hospital, New Delhi, India

Bimbadhar Rath

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Kalawati Saran Children’s Hospital, New Delhi, India

Vinod Kumar Sharma

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, New Delhi, India

Mohini Kumari

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, New Delhi, India

Savita Saini

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Sushil Kumar Kabra

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Shinjini Bhatnagar

shinjini.bhatnagar@gmail.com

Affiliations Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Gurgaon, India, Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Tor A Strand

Affiliations Centre for Intervention Science in Maternal and Child Health (CISMAC), Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Division of Medical Services, Innlandet Hospital Trust, Lillehammer, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PS NW TAS HS UCMN SB. Performed the experiments: SS. Analyzed the data: PS NW TAS RL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS. Wrote the paper: PS NW RL HS SA UCMN JC MK BR VKS SKK SB TAS.