About the Authors

Nidhi Jain

Contributed equally to this work with: Nidhi Jain, Neelam Oswal

Current address: Sutterwala and Cassel Laboratory, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Affiliation Immunobiology, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India

Neelam Oswal

Contributed equally to this work with: Nidhi Jain, Neelam Oswal

Affiliation Immunobiology, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India

Amanpreet Singh Chawla

Affiliation Immunobiology, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India

Tanvi Agrawal

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Research Centre, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad, India

Moanaro Biswas

Current address: Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Affiliation Immunobiology, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India

Sudhanshu Vrati

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Research Centre, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad, India

Satyajit Rath

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Immunobiology, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Research Centre, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad, India

Anna George

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Immunobiology, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India

Vineeta Bal

vineeta@nii.res.in

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Immunobiology, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Research Centre, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad, India

Guruprasad R. Medigeshi

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Research Centre, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SR AG GRM VB. Formal analysis: NJ SR AG GRM VB. Funding acquisition: AG SR GRM VB. Methodology: NJ NO ASC TA MB GRM SV. Resources: SV GRM. Supervision: VB SR AG GRM. Validation: SV SR AG VB GRM. Writing – original draft: NJ SR AG GRM VB. Writing – review & editing: NJ NO ASC SR AG GRM VB.