About the Authors

Vimal Raj Ratchagadasse

Contributed equally to this work with: Vimal Raj Ratchagadasse, Dinakaran Vasudevan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Regional Level Virus Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (RVRDL), Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India

Dinakaran Vasudevan

Contributed equally to this work with: Vimal Raj Ratchagadasse, Dinakaran Vasudevan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Regional Level Virus Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (RVRDL), Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India

Ferdinamarie Sharmila Philomenadin

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Regional Level Virus Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (RVRDL), Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India

Haripriya Sivakumar

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Regional Level Virus Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (RVRDL), Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India

Nivedha Devanathan

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Regional Level Virus Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (RVRDL), Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India

Harmanmeet Kaur

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research, V. Ramalingaswami Bhawan, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India

Labanya Mukhopadhyay

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research, V. Ramalingaswami Bhawan, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India

Rahul Dhodapkar

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

rahuldhodapkar@gmail.com

Affiliation Regional Level Virus Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (RVRDL), Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.