About the Authors

Vidya Nand Ravi Das

Affiliation Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR), Patna, India

Ravindra Nath Pandey

Affiliation Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR), Patna, India

Krishna Pandey

Affiliation Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR), Patna, India

Varsha Singh

Affiliation Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR), Patna, India

Vijay Kumar

Affiliation Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR), Patna, India

Greg Matlashewski

GM and PD are co-senior authors.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Pradeep Das

drpradeep.das@gmail.com

GM and PD are co-senior authors.

Affiliation Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences (ICMR), Patna, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VNRD RNP GM PD. Performed the experiments: VNRD RNP KP VS VK GM PD. Analyzed the data: VNRD RNP GM PD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VK. Wrote the paper: VNRD RNP GM PD.