About the Authors

Najeeha Talat Iqbal

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

najeeha.iqbal@aku.edu

Affiliation Department of pediatrics and child Health, Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Kumail Ahmed

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Aqsa Khalid

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Kehkashan Imtiaz

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Qamreen Mumtaz Ali

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of pediatrics and child Health, Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Tania Munir

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Department of pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Syed Faisal Mahmood

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Unab Khan

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Badar Afzal

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Farah Naz Qamar

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Jesse J. Waggoner

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Hannah Fenelon

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Environmental/Occupational Health Sciences, Family Medicine, Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Helene McOwen

Roles Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Center for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases (CERID), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Erum Khan

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Peter Rabinowitz

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental/Occupational Health Sciences, Family Medicine, Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Wesley C. Van Voorhis

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases (CERID), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.