About the Authors

Sudhir Chandra Joshi

Contributed equally to this work with: Sudhir Chandra Joshi, Vishal Diwan, Ashok J. Tamhankar

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, R.D. Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, India

Vishal Diwan

Contributed equally to this work with: Sudhir Chandra Joshi, Vishal Diwan, Ashok J. Tamhankar

vishaldiwan@hotmail.com

Affiliations Department of Public Health and Environment, R.D. Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, India, International Center for Health Research, R.D. Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, India, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Ashok J. Tamhankar

Contributed equally to this work with: Sudhir Chandra Joshi, Vishal Diwan, Ashok J. Tamhankar

Affiliations Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Indian Initiative for Management of Antibiotic Resistance, Department of Environmental Medicine, R.D. Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, India

Rita Joshi

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, R.D. Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, India

Harshada Shah

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, R.D. Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, India

Megha Sharma

Affiliations Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Pharmacology, R.D. Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, India

Ashish Pathak

Affiliations Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Pediatrics, R.D. Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, India, Department of Women and Children’s Health, International Maternal and Child Health Unit, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Ragini Macaden

Affiliation St. Johns Research Institute, Bangalore, India

Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SCJ VD CSL AP MS RM HS AJT. Performed the experiments: SCJ VD RJ HS MS. Analyzed the data: SCJ VD CSL AP MS RM HS AJT RJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SCJ VD CSL AJT AP MS RM HS RJ. Wrote the paper: AJT CSL VD SCJ.