About the Authors

Anuradha Rajamanickam

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation

Affiliation National Institute of Health-NIRT-International Center for Excellence in Research, Chennai, India

Saravanan Munisankar

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation National Institute of Health-NIRT-International Center for Excellence in Research, Chennai, India

Chandrakumar Dolla

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Pradeep A. Menon

Roles Project administration, Resources

Affiliation National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Kannan Thiruvengadam

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Thomas B. Nutman

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Subash Babu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sbabu@mail.nih.gov, sbabu@nirt.res.in

Affiliations National Institute of Health-NIRT-International Center for Excellence in Research, Chennai, India, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.