About the Authors

Vasundhra Bhandari

Contributed equally to this work with: Vasundhra Bhandari, Arpita Kulshrestha

Affiliation National Institute of Pathology, Indian Council of Medical Research, Safdarjung Hospital Campus, New Delhi, India

Arpita Kulshrestha

Contributed equally to this work with: Vasundhra Bhandari, Arpita Kulshrestha

Affiliation National Institute of Pathology, Indian Council of Medical Research, Safdarjung Hospital Campus, New Delhi, India

Deepak Kumar Deep

Affiliation National Institute of Pathology, Indian Council of Medical Research, Safdarjung Hospital Campus, New Delhi, India

Olivia Stark

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Hygiene, Charite University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Vijay Kumar Prajapati

Affiliation Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

V. Ramesh

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India

Shyam Sundar

Affiliation Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Gabriele Schonian

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Hygiene, Charite University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Jean Claude Dujardin

Affiliation Unit of Molecular Parasitology, Department of Parasitology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Poonam Salotra

salotra@vsnl.com

Affiliation National Institute of Pathology, Indian Council of Medical Research, Safdarjung Hospital Campus, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VB AK SS GS JCD PS. Performed the experiments: VB AK DKD OS. Analyzed the data: VB AK DKD OS GS JCD VR SS PS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VKP SS VR GS JCD PS. Wrote the paper: VB AK OS GS JCD PS.