About the Authors

Deepak Kumar Deep

Affiliations National Institute of Pathology (ICMR), Safdarjung Hospital Campus, New Delhi, India, Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India

Ruchi Singh

Affiliation National Institute of Pathology (ICMR), Safdarjung Hospital Campus, New Delhi, India

Vasundhra Bhandari

Current address: School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Affiliation National Institute of Pathology (ICMR), Safdarjung Hospital Campus, New Delhi, India

Aditya Verma

Affiliation National Institute of Pathology (ICMR), Safdarjung Hospital Campus, New Delhi, India

Vanila Sharma

Affiliation National Institute of Pathology (ICMR), Safdarjung Hospital Campus, New Delhi, India

Saima Wajid

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India

Shyam Sundar

Affiliation Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

V. Ramesh

Affiliation Dermatology Department, Safdarjung Hospital and Vardhman Mahavir Medical College (VMMC), New Delhi, India

Jean Claude Dujardin

Affiliation Unit of Molecular Parasitology, Department of Parasitology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Poonam Salotra

salotra@vsnl.com

Affiliation National Institute of Pathology (ICMR), Safdarjung Hospital Campus, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DKD RS VB PS. Formal analysis: DKD RS PS. Funding acquisition: PS JCD SS. Investigation: DKD AV VS SS VR. Methodology: DKD RS VB PS. Project administration: PS RS JCD SS. Resources: VR SS JCD SW PS. Supervision: PS RS SW JCD. Writing – original draft: DKD RS PS.