About the Authors

Epco Hasker

Contributed equally to this work with: Epco Hasker, Paritosh Malaviya

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

ehasker@itg.be

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Paritosh Malaviya

Contributed equally to this work with: Epco Hasker, Paritosh Malaviya

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Vivek Kumar Scholar

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, Kala-azar Medical Research Center, Muzaffarpur, India

Pieter de Koning

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Om Prakash Singh

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Sangeeta Kansal

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Kristien Cloots

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Marleen Boelaert

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Shyam Sundar

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.