About the Authors

Neil J. Saad

neil.saad@yale.edu (NJS); virginia.pitzer@yale.edu (VEP)

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Cayley C. Bowles

Affiliation David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Bryan T. Grenfell

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, Fogarty International Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Buddha Basnyat

Affiliations Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Amit Arjyal

Affiliation Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal

Sabina Dongol

Affiliation Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal

Abhilasha Karkey

Affiliation Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal

Stephen Baker

Affiliations Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, The Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Virginia E. Pitzer

neil.saad@yale.edu (NJS); virginia.pitzer@yale.edu (VEP)

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Fogarty International Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: NJS BB SB BTG VEP. Formal analysis: NJS CCB VEP. Funding acquisition: NJS BB SB BTG VEP. Investigation: CCB BB AA SD AK SB. Methodology: NJS CCB BTG VEP. Resources: CCB BB AA SD AK SB. Software: NJS CCB BTG VEP. Writing – original draft: NJS VEP. Writing – review & editing: NJS CCB BTG BB AA SD AK SB VEP.