About the Authors

Lalita Roy

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

roy_lalita@yahoo.com

Affiliation Tropical and Infectious Disease Centre, B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Surendra Uranw

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

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Kristien Cloots

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

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Tom Smekens

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Usha Kiran

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Communicable Diseases Control Unit, World Health Organization Country Office, Kathmandu, Nepal

Uttam Raj Pyakurel

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, Ministry of Health, Kathmandu, Nepal

Murari Lal Das

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Rajpal S. Yadav

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Wim Van Bortel

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

Affiliations Entomology Unit, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Outbreak Research Team, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.