About the Authors

Candasamy Sadanandane

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Health Research, ICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Indian Council of Medical Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, Puducherry, India

Ananganallur Nagarajan Shriram

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

anshriram@gmail.com, shriram.an@icmr.gov.in

Affiliation Department of Health Research, ICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Indian Council of Medical Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, Puducherry, India

Ashwani Kumar

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ Former Director, ICMR-VCRC.

Affiliation Department of Health Research, ICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Indian Council of Medical Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, Puducherry, India

Mariapillai Kalimuthu

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Health Research, ICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Indian Council of Medical Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India

Ranganathan Krishnamoorthi

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Health Research, ICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Indian Council of Medical Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, Puducherry, India

S. Selvakumar

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Greater Chennai Corporation, Government of Tamil Nadu, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Annamalai Sakthivel

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Health Research, ICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Indian Council of Medical Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, Puducherry, India

Manju Rahi

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Research, ICMR-Vector Control Research Centre, Indian Council of Medical Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, Puducherry, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.