About the Authors

Shivankari Krishnananthasivam

Contributed equally to this work with: Shivankari Krishnananthasivam, Nimanthi Jayathilaka

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Genetech Research Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Nimanthi Jayathilaka

Contributed equally to this work with: Shivankari Krishnananthasivam, Nimanthi Jayathilaka

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka

Harindra Darshana Sathkumara

Affiliation Genetech Research Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Enoka Corea

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Mohan Natesan

Affiliation Molecular and Translational Sciences, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, MD, United States of America

Aruna Dharshan De Silva

dslv90@yahoo.com

Affiliations Genetech Research Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka, Division of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute of Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: NJ SK ADDS. Data curation: SK. Formal analysis: SK NJ HDS. Funding acquisition: ADDS MN. Investigation: SK. Methodology: NJ SK. Project administration: SK HDS ADDS. Resources: EC. Supervision: NJ ADDS EC MN. Validation: SK. Visualization: SK NJ. Writing – original draft: SK. Writing – review & editing: SK NJ ADDS MN EC.