About the Authors

Indrajit Sarkar

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

indrajit.sar@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, Popular Diagnostic Centre Ltd., Dhaka, Bangladesh, Department of Public Health, Atish Dipankar University of Science & Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Kona Rani Sarkar

Roles Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Economics, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, Bangladesh

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy, and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Author Indrajit Sarkar is employed by Popular Diagnostic Centre Ltd., which provided institutional support (routine salary support and access to laboratory facilities) for this study. This commercial affiliation did not influence the study design, data collection, analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The other author declares no competing interests. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.