About the Authors

Prin Vathesatogkit

pvathesatogkit@george.org.au

Affiliations The George Institute for Global Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Piyamitr Sritara

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Merel Kimman

Affiliation The George Institute for Global Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Bunlue Hengprasith

Affiliation Medical and Health Office, Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, Nonthaburi, Thailand

Tai E-Shyong

Affiliation Department of Medicine, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore

Hwee-Lin Wee

Affiliations Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Department of Pharmacy, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Mark Woodward

Affiliation The George Institute for Global Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

This work was supported by Mahidol University, the Thailand Research Fund, the EGAT and the Higher Education Commission. LIFECARE is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Pfizer international co. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PV PS BH TES HLW MW. Performed the experiments: PV PS BH. Analyzed the data: PV MK HLW MW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PV PS BH. Wrote the paper: PV MW TES MK.