About the Authors
- Keshav Rai
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Affiliations Department of Microbiology, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal, Department of Zoology, West Bengal State University, Barasat, West Bengal, India
- Narayan Raj Bhattarai
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal
- Manu Vanaerschot
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, United States of America
- Hideo Imamura
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Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
- Gebreyohans Gebru
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Affiliation Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture, Aksum University, Aksum, Ethiopia
- Basudha Khanal
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal
- Suman Rijal
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal
- Marleen Boelaert
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Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
- Chiranjib Pal
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Affiliation Department of Zoology, West Bengal State University, Barasat, West Bengal, India
- Prahlad Karki
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal
- Jean-Claude Dujardin
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* E-mail: jcdujardin@itg.be (JCD); gvdauwera@itg.be (GVdA)
Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Antwerp, Belgium
- Gert Van der Auwera
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* E-mail: jcdujardin@itg.be (JCD); gvdauwera@itg.be (GVdA)
Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: KR MV JCD GVdA. Data curation: KR GVdA. Formal analysis: KR MV GVdA. Funding acquisition: NRB SR MB JCD. Investigation: KR MV GG. Methodology: KR MV HI JCD GVdA. Project administration: KR NRB JCD. Resources: KR NRB BK SR MB PK JCD. Software: HI KR. Supervision: NRB MV CP JCD GVdA. Validation: KR NRB MV GG GVdA. Visualization: KR GVdA. Writing – original draft: KR GVdA. Writing – review & editing: KR NRB MV HI GG MB JCD GVdA.