About the Authors

Hasara Nuwangi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Thilini Chanchala Agampodi

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

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

Helen Philippa Price

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

Thomas Shepherd

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

Affiliation School of Medicine, Keele University, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

Kosala Gayan Weerakoon

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

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

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

Suneth Buddhika Agampodi

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

suneth.agampodi@yale.edu

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.