About the Authors

Mohammad Habibur Rahman Sarker

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Sumon Kumar Das

sumon@icddrb.org

Affiliations International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh, School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Shahnawaz Ahmed

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Farzana Ferdous

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Jui Das

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Fahmida Dil Farzana

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Abu S. M. S. B. Shahid

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

K. M. Shahunja

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mokibul Hassan Afrad

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mohammad Abdul Malek

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mohammod Jobayer Chisti

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Pradip Kumar Bardhan

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Md Iqbal Hossain

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Abdullah Al Mamun

Affiliation School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Abu S. G. Faruque

Affiliation International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MHRS SKD MJC PKB MIH AAM ASGF. Performed the experiments: MHRS SKD PKB ASGF. Analyzed the data: MAM MHRS SKD AAM ASGF SA JD FDF FF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MHRS SKD MJC PKB MIH AAM ASGF. Wrote the paper: MHRS SKD MJC SA JD FDF ASGF. Reviewed the manuscript: SKD MHRS SA FF JD ASMSBS KMS MHA MAM MJC PKB MIH AAM ASGF.