About the Authors

Aurobind Vidyarthi

Current address: Department of Dermatology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America.

Affiliation CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Nargis Khan

Current address: Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Affiliation CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Tapan Agnihotri

Current address: Department of Biotech, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Bihar, India.

Affiliation CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Kaneez F. Siddiqui

Affiliation CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Girish R. Nair

Affiliation CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Ashish Arora

Affiliation CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India

Ashok K. Janmeja

Affiliation Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India

Javed N. Agrewala

javed@imtech.res.in

Affiliation CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JNA AV NK. Formal analysis: AV NK TA. Funding acquisition: JNA. Investigation: AV NK TA KFS. Methodology: AV NK. Project administration: JNA. Resources: KFS AKJ AA. Supervision: JNA. Validation: AV NK TA. Visualization: AV NK GRN. Writing – original draft: JNA AV NK. Writing – review & editing: JNA AV NK.