About the Authors

Kolappan Chockalingam

Affiliation National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Chandrasekaran Vedhachalam

Affiliation National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Subramani Rangasamy

Affiliation National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Gomathi Sekar

Affiliation National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Srividya Adinarayanan

Affiliation National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Soumya Swaminathan

Affiliation National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Pradeep Aravindan Menon

docpradeep@yahoo.com

Affiliation National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KC PAM. Performed the experiments: KC SR GS. Analyzed the data: CV SA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS SR. Wrote the paper: KC PAM.