About the Authors

Santhik S. Lupitha

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Molecular Bioassay Laboratory, Institute of Advanced Virology (IAV), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

Geetu Rose Varghese

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Molecular Bioassay Laboratory, Institute of Advanced Virology (IAV), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

Lekshmi J. Das

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Molecular Bioassay Laboratory, Institute of Advanced Virology (IAV), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

Priya Prabhakaran

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Virus Applications, Institute of Advanced Virology (IAV), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

Ashwini M. Ananda

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Neurovirology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Reeta S. Mani

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

drreeta@gmail.com (RSM); esreekumar@iav.res.in, esreekumar@rgcb.res.in (ES)

Affiliation Department of Neurovirology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Easwaran Sreekumar

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

drreeta@gmail.com (RSM); esreekumar@iav.res.in, esreekumar@rgcb.res.in (ES)

Affiliations Molecular Bioassay Laboratory, Institute of Advanced Virology (IAV), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, Molecular Virology Laboratory, BRIC-Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (BRIC-RGCB), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.