About the Authors

Anusha Kaneshapillai

Contributed equally to this work with: Anusha Kaneshapillai, Guwani Liyanage

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

‡ UH and SP also contributed equally to this work. AK and GL are Joint Senior Authors.

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka

Usha Hettiaratchi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision

‡ UH and SP also contributed equally to this work. AK and GL are Joint Senior Authors.

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka

Shamini Prathapan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision

‡ UH and SP also contributed equally to this work. AK and GL are Joint Senior Authors.

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka

Guwani Liyanage

Contributed equally to this work with: Anusha Kaneshapillai, Guwani Liyanage

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

guwani@sjp.ac.lk

‡ UH and SP also contributed equally to this work. AK and GL are Joint Senior Authors.

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.