About the Authors

Anurag Kumar Kushwaha

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Ashish Shukla

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Breanna M. Scorza

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Tulika Kumari Rai

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Rahul Chaubey

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Kala-Azar Medical Research Center, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India

Dharmendra Kumar Maurya

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Shweta Srivastva

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Shreya Upadhyay

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Abhishek Kumar Singh

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Paritosh Malviya

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Om Prakash Singh

Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Vivek Kumar Scholar

Roles Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Kala-Azar Medical Research Center, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India

Puja Tiwary

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Shakti Kumar Singh

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Kala-Azar Medical Research Center, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India

Phillip Lawyer

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Arthropod Collections, Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America

Edgar Rowton

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Division of Entomology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Scott A. Bernhardt

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

Christine A. Petersen

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

christine-petersen@uiowa.edu (CAP); drshyamsundar@hotmail.com (SS)

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Iowa, Coralville, Iowa, United States of America

Shyam Sundar

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

christine-petersen@uiowa.edu (CAP); drshyamsundar@hotmail.com (SS)

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.