About the Authors

Chamila Kappagoda

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka

Indika Senavirathna

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka

Thilini Agampodi

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Suneth Buddhika Agampodi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

sunethagampodi@yahoo.com

Affiliations International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.