About the Authors

Chet Raj Ojha

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

cojha001@fiu.edu

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Basant Joshi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Affiliation Leadership for Environment and Development Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

Khagendra Prakash KC

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Software, Validation

Affiliation Leadership for Environment and Development Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

Shyam Prakash Dumre

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Immunogenetics, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Keshav Kumar Yogi

Roles Methodology, Software, Supervision

Affiliation World Health Organization, Lalitpur, Nepal

Bandana Bhatta

Roles Investigation, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Save the Children International, Kathmandu, Nepal

Tulasi Adhikari

Roles Resources

Affiliation Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, Ministry of Health and Population, Government of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

Kathryn Crowley

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation RTI International, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Babu Ram Marasini

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, Ministry of Health and Population, Government of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.