About the Authors

Pradyot Bhattacharya

Affiliation Infectious Diseases and Immunology Division, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Smriti Ghosh

Current address: Department of Botany, Serampore College, Serampore, West Bengal, India

Affiliation Infectious Diseases and Immunology Division, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Sarfaraz Ahmad Ejazi

Affiliation Infectious Diseases and Immunology Division, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Mehebubar Rahaman

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

Krishna Pandey

Affiliation Department of Clinical Medicine, Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna, Bihar, India

Vidya Nand Ravi Das

Affiliation Department of Clinical Medicine, Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna, Bihar, India

Pradeep Das

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna, Bihar, India

Rama Prosad Goswami

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

Bibhuti Saha

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

Nahid Ali

nali@iicb.res.in

Affiliation Infectious Diseases and Immunology Division, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PB SG NA. Performed the experiments: PB SG SAE. Analyzed the data: PB SG NA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NA. Wrote the paper: PB NA. Performed patient profiling and provided blood samples: MR KP VNRD PD RPG BS.