About the Authors

Sivaprakasam T. Selvavinayagam

Contributed equally to this work with: Sivaprakasam T. Selvavinayagam, Sathish Sankar, Yean K. Yong

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

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

Sathish Sankar

Contributed equally to this work with: Sivaprakasam T. Selvavinayagam, Sathish Sankar, Yean K. Yong

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Centre for Infectious Diseases, Saveetha University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Yean K. Yong

Contributed equally to this work with: Sivaprakasam T. Selvavinayagam, Sathish Sankar, Yean K. Yong

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

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

Abdul R. Anshad

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

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

Samudi Chandramathi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Malaya, Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Anavarathan Somasundaram

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Institute of Community Medicine, Madras Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Sampath Palani

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Validation

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

Parthipan Kumarasamy

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation

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

Roshini Azhaguvel

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation

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

Ajith B. Kumar

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation

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

Sudharshini Subramaniam

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software

Affiliation Institute of Community Medicine, Madras Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Manickam Malathi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Vector Control and Zoonoses, Hosur, Tamil Nadu, India

Venkatachalam Vijayalakshmi

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

Affiliation Institute of Vector Control and Zoonoses, Hosur, Tamil Nadu, India

Manivannan Rajeshkumar

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization

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

Anandhazhvar Kumaresan

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization

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

Ramendra P. Pandey

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation School of Health Sciences and Technology, UPES, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

Nagarajan Muruganandam

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

Affiliation Regional Medical Research Centre, Indian Council of Medical Research, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

Natarajan Gopalan

Roles Investigation, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

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

Meganathan Kannan

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

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

Amudhan Murugesan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization

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

Pachamuthu Balakrishnan

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

Affiliation Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Center for Infectious Diseases, Saveetha Medical College and Hospital, Saveetha University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Siddappa N. Byrareddy

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

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

Aditya P. Dash

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

Affiliation Asian Institute of Public Health University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

Vijayakumar Velu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Software, 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, Georgia, United States of America

Marie Larsson

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Division of Molecular Medicine and Virology, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Esaki M. Shankar

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

sivraju@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, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sivraju@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.