About the Authors

Bharath Balu

Contributed equally to this work with: Bharath Balu, Naresh Singh

Affiliation Department of Global Health, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Naresh Singh

Contributed equally to this work with: Bharath Balu, Naresh Singh

Affiliation Department of Global Health, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Steven P. Maher

Affiliation Department of Global Health, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

John H. Adams

jadams3@health.usf.edu

Affiliation Department of Global Health, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BB JHA. Performed the experiments: BB NS SPM. Analyzed the data: BB NS SPM JHA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NS. Wrote the paper: BB JHA.