About the Authors

Vanheuang Phommadeechack

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

Affiliations Department of Medical Entomology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit, Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic

Sungsit Sungvornyothin

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Entomology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Wirichada Pan-Ngum

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

Affiliations Department of Tropical Hygiene, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Watthana Theppangna

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Livestock and Fisheries, National Animal Health Laboratory (NAHL), Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic

Koukeo Phommasone

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit, Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic

Elizabeth A. Ashley

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit, Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Narisara Chantratita

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Matthew T. Robinson

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthew T. Robinson, Rutcharin Potiwat

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

matthew.r@tropmedres.ac

Affiliations Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit, Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Rutcharin Potiwat

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthew T. Robinson, Rutcharin Potiwat

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Deceased.

Affiliation Department of Medical Entomology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.