About the Authors

Sayera Banu

sbanu@icddrb.org

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Md. Toufiq Rahman

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mohammad Khaja Mafij Uddin

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Razia Khatun

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Md. Siddiqur Rahman Khan

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Md. Mojibur Rahman

Affiliation National TB Control Program, Directorate General of Health Services, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Syed Iftekhar Uddin

Affiliation Directorate of Prisons, Nazimuddin Road, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Tahmeed Ahmed

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

James D. Heffelfinger

Affiliations International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Global Disease Detection Branch, Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB TA MMR SIU. Performed the experiments: SB MTR MKMU MSRK. Analyzed the data: SB RK TA JDH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MMR SIU. Wrote the paper: SB MTR JDH.