About the Authors

Tor A. Strand

tors@me.com

Affiliations Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Medical Microbiology, Innlandet Hospital Trust, Lillehammer, Norway, Division of Infectious Disease Control, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

Pushpa R. Sharma

Affiliation Department of Child Health, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Håkon K. Gjessing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Manjeswori Ulak

Affiliations Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Child Health, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Ram K. Chandyo

Affiliations Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Child Health, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Ramesh K. Adhikari

Affiliation Department of Child Health, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Halvor Sommerfelt

Affiliations Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Division of Infectious Disease Control, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TAS PRS RKC HKG HS. Performed the experiments: TAS RKC MU PRS RKA. Analyzed the data: TAS HS HKG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RKC MU. Wrote the paper: TAS HS HKG RKC. Supervising data collection: TAS PRS RKC. Data management: TAS.