About the Authors

K. Zaman

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

David A. Sack

Affiliation Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kathleen M. Neuzil

Affiliation PATH, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Mohammad Yunus

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Lawrence H. Moulton

Affiliation Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jonathan D. Sugimoto

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jessica A. Fleming

Affiliation PATH, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Ilias Hossain

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Shams El Arifeen

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Tasnim Azim

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mustafizur Rahman

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Kristen D. C. Lewis

Affiliation PATH, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Andrea J. Feller

Affiliation Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Firdausi Qadri

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

M. Elizabeth Halloran

Affiliations Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Biostatistics Department, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Alejandro Cravioto

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

John C. Victor

cvictor@path.org

Affiliation PATH, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: During this research, KNM, JAF, KDCL and JCV's employment at PATH was supported by research grants for rotavirus vaccines from the Gavi Alliance and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. During the writing of this manuscript, KDCL was an employee of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on the Pneumonia team. During the writing of this manuscript, AJF was employed by Novartis Vaccines when it was acquired by GlaxoSmithKline, the maker of Rotarix; however, for the six-month period while AJF was employed by GSK, she did not work on company projects related to rotavirus vaccines. LHM serves on an advisory board for Merck for one of its respiratory vaccines; Merck has a competitor rotavirus vaccine.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: KZ DAS KMN MY LHM JAF SEA FQ AC JCV. Data curation: KZ JDS IH KCDL AJF. Formal analysis: JDS MEH. Funding acquisition: KZ KMN MEH JCV. Investigation: IH TZ MR. Methodology: KZ DAS KMN MY LHM JAF TZ MR KDCL AJF JCV. Project administration: KZ IH KDCL JCV. Resources: KZ MY LHM KDCL TA MEH. Software: JDS. Supervision: KZ DAS KMN MY LHM SEA TA FQ MEH AC JCV. Validation: LHM MEH. Visualization: KZ JDS JCV. Writing – original draft: KZ DAS JDS JCV. Writing – review & editing: KZ DAS KMN MY LHM JDS JAF IH SEA TA MR KDCL AJF FQ MEH AC JCV.