About the Authors

Janith Warnasekara

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

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Sri Lanka

Shalka Srimantha

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Sri Lanka

Chamila Kappagoda

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Sri Lanka

Dinesha Jayasundara

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Sri Lanka, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Sri Lanka

Indika Senevirathna

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Sri Lanka, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Sri Lanka

Michael Matthias

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Suneth Agampodi

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

suneth.agampodi@yale.edu, sunethagampodi@yahoo.com

‡ These authors are equal senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Sri Lanka, Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Joseph M. Vinetz

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

‡ These authors are equal senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.