About the Authors

Himali S. Jayasinghearachchi

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

jayasinghearachchihs@kdu.ac.lk (ASJ); dharshan_fom@kdu.ac.lk (ADDeS)

Affiliation Institute for Combinatorial Advance Research and Education (KDU-CARE), General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Ratmalana, Sri Lanka

Enoka M. Corea

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Kumari I. Jayaratne

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Biomedical Laboratory 2, Faculty of Medicine, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Ratmalana, Sri Lanka

Regina A. Fonseka

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Thilini A. Muthugama

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Biomedical Laboratory 2, Faculty of Medicine, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Ratmalana, Sri Lanka

Jayanthi Masakorala

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Ravija YC. Ramasinghe

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Biomedical Laboratory 2, Faculty of Medicine, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Ratmalana, Sri Lanka

Aruna D. De Silva

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

jayasinghearachchihs@kdu.ac.lk (ASJ); dharshan_fom@kdu.ac.lk (ADDeS)

Affiliations Biomedical Laboratory 2, Faculty of Medicine, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Ratmalana, Sri Lanka, Department of Para-Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Ratmalana, Sri Lanka

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.