About the Authors

Vijay Kumar

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Vector Biology and Control, Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR), Agamkuan, Patna, Bihar, India

Rakesh Mandal

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Vector Biology and Control, Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR), Agamkuan, Patna, Bihar, India

Sushmita Das

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna, Bihar, India

Shreekant Kesari

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

Affiliation Department of Vector Biology and Control, Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR), Agamkuan, Patna, Bihar, India

Diwakar Singh Dinesh

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

Affiliation Department of Vector Biology and Control, Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR), Agamkuan, Patna, Bihar, India

Krishna Pandey

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Medicine and Treatment, Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR), Agamkuan, Patna, Bihar, India

Vidyanand Rabi Das

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Medicine and Treatment, Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR), Agamkuan, Patna, Bihar, India

Roshan Kamal Topno

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Medicine and Treatment, Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR), Agamkuan, Patna, Bihar, India

Madan Prasad Sharma

Roles Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation State Health Society of Bihar, Patna, Bihar, India

Rudra Kumar Dasgupta

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Vector Borne Disease Control Program, Sham Nath Marg, New Delhi, India

Pradeep Das

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

drpradeep.das@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Vector Biology and Control, Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR), Agamkuan, Patna, Bihar, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.