About the Authors
- Rajiv Kumar
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Affiliations Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, Department of Immunology and Infection, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Herston, Queensland, Australia
- Neetu Singh
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Affiliation Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Shalini Gautam
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Affiliation Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Om Prakash Singh
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Affiliation Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Kamlesh Gidwani
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Affiliations Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, Department of Biotechnology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
- Madhukar Rai
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Affiliation Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
- David Sacks
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Affiliation National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Shyam Sundar
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Contributed equally to this work with: Shyam Sundar, Susanne Nylén
* E-mail: drshyamsundar@hotmail.com (SS); susanne.nylen@ki.se (SN)
Affiliation Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Susanne Nylén
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Contributed equally to this work with: Shyam Sundar, Susanne Nylén
* E-mail: drshyamsundar@hotmail.com (SS); susanne.nylen@ki.se (SN)
Affiliation Karolinska Institutet, Department of Microbiology Tumor and Cell Biology, Stockholm, Sweden
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RK DS SN. Performed the experiments: RK NS SG OPS KG SN. Analyzed the data: RK NS SG OPS KG SN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MR SS SN. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: RK DS SS SN. Organization of sample collection from patients: RK MR SS.