About the Authors

Sachith Mettananda

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sachith.mettananda@kln.ac.lk

Affiliations Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka, Colombo North Teaching Hospital, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Marius Suranjan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Roshale Fernando

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Tiran Dias

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Colombo North Teaching Hospital, Ragama, Sri Lanka, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Chamila Mettananda

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Rexan Rodrigo

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Lakshman Perera

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Richard Gibbons

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, MRC Weatherall Institute Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Anuja Premawardhena

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Colombo North Teaching Hospital, Ragama, Sri Lanka, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka

Douglas Higgs

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, MRC Weatherall Institute Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.