About the Authors

Jeevan Acharya

Affiliation La Grandee International College, Pokhara University, Pokhara, Nepal

Nils Kaehler

Affiliation Sandefjord Helsepark, Skiringssalveien 20, Sandefjord, Norway

Sujan Babu Marahatta

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Manmohan Memorial Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal

Shiva Raj Mishra

Affiliation School of Population Health, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

Sudarshan Subedi

Affiliation School of Health and Allied Sciences, Pokhara University, Kaski, Nepal

Bipin Adhikari

biopion@gmail.com

Affiliation Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JA SS BA. Performed the experiments: JA. Analyzed the data: JA BA NK SBM SRM SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JA BA. Wrote the paper: JA BA NK SBM SRM SS.