About the Authors

Deepak Chouhan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Pathogen Biology Group, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB), Thiruvananthapuram, India, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal, India

T. Barani Devi

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Pathogen Biology Group, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB), Thiruvananthapuram, India

Santanu Chattopadhyay

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pathogen Biology Group, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB), Thiruvananthapuram, India

Sanjai Dharmaseelan

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Pathogen Biology Group, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB), Thiruvananthapuram, India

Gopinath Balakrish Nair

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pathogen Biology Group, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB), Thiruvananthapuram, India

Krishnadas Devadas

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram, India

Madhavan Radhakrishna Pillai

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mrpillai@rgcb.res.in

Affiliation Pathogen Biology Group, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB), Thiruvananthapuram, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.