About the Authors

Sarfaraz Ahmad Ejazi

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

Pradyot Bhattacharya

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

Md. Asjad Karim Bakhteyar

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Shri Krishna Medical College and Hospital, Muzaffarpur, India

Aquil Ahmad Mumtaz

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Shri Krishna Medical College and Hospital, Muzaffarpur, India

Krishna Pandey

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

Vidya Nand Ravi Das

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

Pradeep Das

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

Mehebubar Rahaman

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

Rama Prosad Goswami

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

Nahid Ali

nali@iicb.res.in

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

Competing Interests

The authors declare no competing interests

Author Contributions

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