About the Authors

Nusrat Homaira

nhomaira@icddrb.org; meghla_mph@yahoo.com

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Stephen P. Luby

Affiliations International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Kamal Hossain

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Kariul Islam

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Makhdum Ahmed

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mustafizur Rahman

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Ziaur Rahman

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Repon C. Paul

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mejbah Uddin Bhuiyan

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

W. Abdullah Brooks

Affiliations International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Bloomberg School of Public, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Badrul Munir Sohel

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Kajal Chandra Banik

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Marc-Alain Widdowson

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Melisa Willby

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Mahmudur Rahman

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research, (IEDCR), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Joseph Bresee

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Katharine-Sturm Ramirez

Affiliations International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner

Affiliations International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NH SL MA WAB BMS MAW Mahmudur Rahman JB KSR EAB. Performed the experiments: NH MA Mustafizur Rahman ZR. Analyzed the data: NH KCB KI Mustafizur Rahman ZR RCP MUB KH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MW. Wrote the paper: NH.