About the Authors

Saruna Ghimire

saruna.ghimire@unlv.edu

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Community Health Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Binaya Kumar Baral

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Nepal Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal

Karen Callahan

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Community Health Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SG BKB. Data curation: SG. Formal analysis: SG KC. Investigation: BKB. Methodology: SG BKB. Project administration: SG BKB. Resources: BKB. Supervision: SG. Visualization: SG KC. Writing – original draft: SG KC. Writing – review & editing: SG BKB KC.