About the Authors

Janith Warnasekara

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Sri Lanka, Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Suneth Agampodi

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

suneth.agampodi@yale.edu, sunethagampodi@yahoo.com

Affiliations Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Sri Lanka, Section of Infectious diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Rupika Abeynayake

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, Department of Agribusiness Management, Faculty of Agriculture and Plantation Management, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka, Kuliyapitiya, Sri Lanka

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.