About the Authors

Liton Chandra Sen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Community Health and Hygiene, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Science, Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Patuakhali, Bangladesh, Department of Food Engineering and Tea Technology, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh

Md Jamal Uddin

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh

Ishrat Jahan

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Community Health and Hygiene, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Science, Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Patuakhali, Bangladesh

Nadia Salekin

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Community Health and Hygiene, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Science, Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Patuakhali, Bangladesh

Jahid Hasan Shourove

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Food Engineering and Tea Technology, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh

Md Mosiur Rahman

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Population Science and Human Resource Development, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Cuilin Zhang

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Davidson H. Hamer

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

GM Rabiul Islam

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

rabi-ttc@sust.edu

Affiliation Department of Food Engineering and Tea Technology, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.