About the Authors

Sayera Banu

sbanu@icddrb.org

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Asif Mujtaba Mahmud

Affiliation National Institute of Diseases of Chest and Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Md. Toufiq Rahman

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Arman Hossain

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mohammad Khaja Mafij Uddin

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Tahmeed Ahmed

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Razia Khatun

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Wahiduzzaman Akhanda

Affiliation National Institute of Diseases of Chest and Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Roland Brosch

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Integrated Mycobacterial Pathogenomics Unit, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB AMM. Performed the experiments: MKMU. Analyzed the data: SB RK TA MTR AH WA RB. Wrote the paper: SB MKMU MTR AH TA. Performed the field work: SB AMM.