About the Authors

Amal K. Halder

amalk@icddrb.org

Affiliation Program on Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Science (PIDVS), International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Emily S. Gurley

Affiliation Program on Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Science (PIDVS), International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Aliya Naheed

Affiliation Program on Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Science (PIDVS), International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Samir K. Saha

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Dhaka Shishu Hospital, Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka, Bangladesh

W. Abdullah Brooks

Affiliation Program on Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Science (PIDVS), International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Shams El Arifeen

Affiliation Program on Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Science (PIDVS), International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Hossain M. S. Sazzad

Affiliation Program on Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Science (PIDVS), International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Eben Kenah

Affiliations Departments of Biostatistics and Global Health, University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Departments of Biostatistics and Global Health, University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Stephen P. Luby

Affiliation Program on Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Science (PIDVS), International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AKH ESG SEA SL. Performed the experiments: AKH ESG AN. Analyzed the data: AKH EK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ESG AN SKS WB SEA HMSS EK SL. Wrote the paper: AKH. Contributed significantly to analyze and write up the paper:.