About the Authors

Dileepa Senajith Ediriweera

Affiliation ICT Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Anuradhani Kasturiratne

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Arunasalam Pathmeswaran

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Nipul Kithsiri Gunawardena

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Buddhika Asiri Wijayawickrama

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Shaluka Francis Jayamanne

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Geoffrey Kennedy Isbister

Affiliations Clinical Toxicology Research Group, University of Newcastle, Waratah, Australia, South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Andrew Dawson

Affiliations South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, Central Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Emanuele Giorgi

Affiliation CHICAS, Lancaster University Medical School, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Peter John Diggle

Affiliation CHICAS, Lancaster University Medical School, Lancaster, United Kingdom

David Griffith Lalloo

Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Hithanadura Janaka de Silva

hjdes@sltnet.lk

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK AP GKI AD DGL HJdS. Performed the experiments: AK AP NKG BAW SFJ HJdS. Analyzed the data: DSE AK AP NKG EG PJD. Wrote the paper: DSE AK AP GKI AD PJD DGL HJdS.