About the Authors

Swagata Ganguly

swagatamedicine@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Department of Microbiology, NRS Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Pabitra Saha

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Department of Zoology, A. P. C. Roy Govt. College, Himachal Bihar, Matigara, Siliguri, West Bengal, India

Moytrey Chatterjee

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Surajit Roy

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Tamal Kanti Ghosh

Affiliation Medinipur Medical College, West Medinipur, West Bengal, India

Subhasish K. Guha

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Pratip K. Kundu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Dilip K. Bera

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Nandita Basu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Ardhendu K. Maji

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AKM SG. Performed the experiments: SG PS MC SR TKG SKG PKK DKB NB AKM. Analyzed the data: SG PS AKM TKG NB MC SR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG SKG PKK. Wrote the paper: AKM SG PS NB DKB.