About the Authors

Bidhubhusan Mahapatra

bbmahapatra@gmail.com

Affiliation Population Council, New Delhi, India

Catherine M. Lowndes

Affiliation Health Protection Services–Colindale, Health Protection Agency, London, United Kingdom

Sanjay Kumar Mohanty

Affiliation International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India

Kaveri Gurav

Affiliation Karnataka Health Promotion Trust, Bengaluru, India

Banadakoppa M. Ramesh

Affiliations Karnataka Health Promotion Trust, Bengaluru, India, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Stephen Moses

Affiliations Karnataka Health Promotion Trust, Bengaluru, India, Departments of Medical Microbiology and Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Reynold Washington

Affiliations Karnataka Health Promotion Trust, Bengaluru, India, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, St. John's Medical College and Hospital, Bengaluru, India

Michel Alary

Affiliation Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Laval University, Québec City, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BM CL. Performed the experiments: BM CL KG BR MA. Analyzed the data: BM SKM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CL KG BR RW SM MA. Wrote the paper: BM SKM.