About the Authors

Puja Bose

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Division of Bacteriology, ICMR-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India

Goutam Chowdhury

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Bacteriology, ICMR-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India, Collaborative Research Centre of Okayama University for Infectious Diseases at ICMR-NICED, Kolkata, India

Gourab Halder

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Bacteriology, ICMR-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India

Debjani Ghosh

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Division of Bacteriology, ICMR-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India

Alok K. Deb

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology, ICMR-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India

Kei Kitahara

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration

Affiliations Collaborative Research Centre of Okayama University for Infectious Diseases at ICMR-NICED, Kolkata, India, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Shin-ichi Miyoshi

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliations Collaborative Research Centre of Okayama University for Infectious Diseases at ICMR-NICED, Kolkata, India, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

Masatomo Morita

Roles Funding acquisition, Software

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

Thandavarayan Ramamurthy

Roles Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Bacteriology, ICMR-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India

Shanta Dutta

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Division of Bacteriology, ICMR-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India

Asish Kumar Mukhopadhyay

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

asish_mukhopadhyay@yahoo.com

Affiliation Division of Bacteriology, ICMR-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.