About the Authors

G. Bhuvana Priya

Affiliation Division of Bacteriology & Mycology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India

Viswas Konasagara Nagaleekar

gandham71@gmail.com (RKG); vkn111@gmail.com (VKN); grace_bly@yahoo.com (RKA)

Affiliation Division of Bacteriology & Mycology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India

A. Arun Prince Milton

Affiliation Division of Veterinary Public Health, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India

M. Saminathan

Affiliation Division of Pathology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India

Amod Kumar

Affiliation Division of Animal Genetics, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India

Amit Ranjan Sahoo

Affiliation Division of Veterinary Biotechnology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India

Sajad Ahmad Wani

Affiliation Division of Veterinary Biotechnology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India

Amit Kumar

Affiliation Division of Veterinary Biotechnology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India

S. K. Gupta

Affiliation Division of Livestock and Fishery Management, ICAR Research Complex for Eastern Region (ICAR-RCER), Patna, Bihar, India

Aditya P. Sahoo

Affiliation Division of Veterinary Biotechnology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India

A. K. Tiwari

Affiliation Division of Biological Standardization, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India

R. K. Agarwal

gandham71@gmail.com (RKG); vkn111@gmail.com (VKN); grace_bly@yahoo.com (RKA)

Affiliation Division of Bacteriology & Mycology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India

Ravi Kumar Gandham

gandham71@gmail.com (RKG); vkn111@gmail.com (VKN); grace_bly@yahoo.com (RKA)

Affiliation Division of Veterinary Biotechnology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RKG VKN. Data curation: GBP ARS SAW Amod Kumar. Formal analysis: GBP RKG. Funding acquisition: VKN RKA SKG. Investigation: GBP APM MS. Methodology: GBP. Project administration: RKA. Resources: VKN RKA RKG AKT Amit Kumar. Software: ARS Amit Kumar RKG. Supervision: RKG VKN. Validation: GBP APS APM. Visualization: GBP RKS APS. Writing – original draft: GBP APM RKG. Writing – review & editing: GBP APM RKG APS VKN.