About the Authors

Soumi Sadhu

Affiliation Department of Transplant Immunology and Immunogenetics, AIIMS, New Delhi, India

Binod Kumar Khaitan

Affiliation Department of Dermatology and Venereology, AIIMS, New Delhi, India

Beenu Joshi

Affiliation Immunology Division, National Jalma Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, ICMR, Agra, India

Utpal Sengupta

Affiliation Stanley Browne Research Laboratory, The Leprosy Mission, Shahdara, New Delhi, India

Arvind Kumar Nautiyal

Affiliation Department of Transplant Immunology and Immunogenetics, AIIMS, New Delhi, India

Dipendra Kumar Mitra

salilmitra2@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Transplant Immunology and Immunogenetics, AIIMS, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DKM SS. Performed the experiments: SS AKN. Analyzed the data: DKM SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DKM BKK BJ US. Wrote the paper: SS DKM.