About the Authors

Soo Ching Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Soo Ching Lee, Mei San Tang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

leesc@um.edu.my (SCL); yvonne@ummc.edu.my (YALL); png.loke@nyumc.org (PL)

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Mei San Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Soo Ching Lee, Mei San Tang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Alice V. Easton

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Joseph Cooper Devlin

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Ling Ling Chua

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Ilseung Cho

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Foong Ming Moy

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Tsung Fei Khang

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University of Malaya Centre for Data Analytics, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Yvonne A. L. Lim

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

leesc@um.edu.my (SCL); yvonne@ummc.edu.my (YALL); png.loke@nyumc.org (PL)

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA), University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

P’ng Loke

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

leesc@um.edu.my (SCL); yvonne@ummc.edu.my (YALL); png.loke@nyumc.org (PL)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.