About the Authors

Rahini Mahendran

Contributed equally to this work with: Rahini Mahendran, Sisira Pathirana, Manuj Chrishantha Weerasinghe

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

rahini.mahen15@gmail.com (RM); sisira@ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk (SP); manuj@commed.cmb.ac.lk (MCW)

Current address: Smile Train Cleft Centre, Faculty of Dental Sciences, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Sisira Pathirana

Contributed equally to this work with: Rahini Mahendran, Sisira Pathirana, Manuj Chrishantha Weerasinghe

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

rahini.mahen15@gmail.com (RM); sisira@ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk (SP); manuj@commed.cmb.ac.lk (MCW)

Current address: Institute of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Affiliation Malaria Research Unit, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Ilangamage Thilini Sashika Piyatilake

Roles Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Computational Mathematics, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

Shyam Sanjeewa Nishantha Perera

Roles Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research and Development Center for Mathematical Modeling, Faculty of Science, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Manuj Chrishantha Weerasinghe

Contributed equally to this work with: Rahini Mahendran, Sisira Pathirana, Manuj Chrishantha Weerasinghe

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

rahini.mahen15@gmail.com (RM); sisira@ibmbb.cmb.ac.lk (SP); manuj@commed.cmb.ac.lk (MCW)

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.