About the Authors

Sukanta Chowdhury

sukanta@icddrb.org

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Salah Uddin Khan

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Gary Crameri

Affiliation CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL), Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Jonathan H. Epstein

Affiliation EcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, United States of America

Christopher C. Broder

Affiliation Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ausraful Islam

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Alison J. Peel

Affiliation Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia

Jennifer Barr

Affiliation CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL), Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Peter Daszak

Affiliation EcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, United States of America

Lin-Fa Wang

Affiliations CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL), Geelong, Victoria, Australia, Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore

Stephen P. Luby

Affiliations International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SPL LFW SC MSUK. Performed the experiments: GC JB CCB. Analyzed the data: SC SUK AJP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GC JB CCB. Wrote the paper: SC SUK AJP SPL. Assisted in data interpretation: GC JB CCB JHE PD LFW AI AJP SPL. Review the manuscript: SUK GC JHE CCB AI JB PD LFW SPL.