About the Authors

Karin S. Engström

Affiliation Section of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Mohammad Bakhtiar Hossain

Affiliations Section for Metals and Health, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Martin Lauss

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Sultan Ahmed

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Rubhana Raqib

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Marie Vahter

Affiliation Section for Metals and Health, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Karin Broberg

karin.broberg_palmgren@med.lu.se

Affiliations Section of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, Section for Metals and Health, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the research: KSE KB. Performed the research: MBH SA. Contributed to the study material: MV RR. Contributed to the manuscript writing: KSE KB ML SA MBH MV RR. Analyzed the data: ML KSE.