About the Authors

Sivaprakasam T. Selvavinayagam

Contributed equally to this work with: Sivaprakasam T. Selvavinayagam, Bijulal Aswathy, Yean K. Yong

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation State Public Health Laboratory, Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, DMS Campus, Teynampet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Bijulal Aswathy

Contributed equally to this work with: Sivaprakasam T. Selvavinayagam, Bijulal Aswathy, Yean K. Yong

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Infection and Inflammation, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur, India

Yean K. Yong

Contributed equally to this work with: Sivaprakasam T. Selvavinayagam, Bijulal Aswathy, Yean K. Yong

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory Centre, Xiamen University Malaysia, Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia

Asha Frederick

Roles Investigation, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Lakshmi Murali

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Vasudevan Kalaivani

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation State Public Health Laboratory, Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, DMS Campus, Teynampet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Sree J. Karishma

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Infection and Inflammation, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur, India

Manivannan Rajeshkumar

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization

Affiliation State Public Health Laboratory, Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, DMS Campus, Teynampet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Adukkadukkam Anusree

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Blood and Vascular Biology, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur, India

Meganathan Kannan

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Blood and Vascular Biology, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur, India

Natarajan Gopalan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur, India

Ramachandran Vignesh

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pre-clinical Department, Royal College of Medicine, Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, Malaysia

Amudhan Murugesan

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, The Government Theni Medical College and Hospital, Theni, India

Hong Yien Tan

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory Centre, Xiamen University Malaysia, Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia

Ying Zhang

Roles Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory Centre, Xiamen University Malaysia, Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia

Samudi Chandramathi

Roles Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Munusamy Ponnan Sivasankaran

Roles Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Pachamuthu Balakrishnan

Roles Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences (SIMATS), Centre for Infectious Diseases, Velappanchavadi, Chennai, India

Sakthivel Govindaraj

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Division of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory National Primate Research Center, Emory Vaccine Center, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Siddappa N. Byrareddy

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Vijayakumar Velu

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Division of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory National Primate Research Center, Emory Vaccine Center, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Marie Larsson

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine and Clinical Sciences, Linkoping University, Linköping, Sweden

Esaki M. Shankar

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

dphpmlab@gmail.com (SR); shankarem@cutn.ac.in (EMS)

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Infection and Inflammation, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur, India

Sivadoss Raju

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

dphpmlab@gmail.com (SR); shankarem@cutn.ac.in (EMS)

Affiliation State Public Health Laboratory, Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, DMS Campus, Teynampet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.