About the Authors

Natasha Chida

nchida1@jhmi.edu

Affiliations Jay Weiss Institute for Health Equity at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Zara Ansari

Affiliation Interactive Research and Development, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Hamidah Hussain

Affiliation Indus Hospital Research Center, Indus Hospital, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Maria Jaswal

Affiliation Indus Hospital Research Center, Indus Hospital, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Stephen Symes

Affiliation Jay Weiss Institute for Health Equity at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Aamir J. Khan

Affiliations Interactive Research and Development, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, Indus Hospital Research Center, Indus Hospital, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Shama Mohammed

Affiliation Interactive Research and Development, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NC AJK SM SS. Performed the experiments: ZA MJ HH. Analyzed the data: NC ZA SM. Wrote the paper: NC AJK SM. Reviewed and revised the manuscript: NC ZA HH MJ SS AJK SM.