About the Authors

Nadira D. Karunaweera

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

nadira@parasit.cmb.ac.lk

‡ These authors were co-principal investigators.

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Sanath Senanayake

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Samitha Ginige

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Hermali Silva

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Nuwani Manamperi

Roles Investigation, Methodology

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

Nilakshi Samaranayake

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Rajika Dewasurendra

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Panduka Karunanayake

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Deepa Gamage

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Nissanka de Silva

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka

Upul Senarath

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Guofa Zhou

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

‡ These authors were co-principal investigators.

Affiliation University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.