About the Authors

Pabitra Saha

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Department of Zoology, A. P. C. Roy Govt. College, Himachal Bihar, Matigara, Siliguri, West Bengal, India

Swagata Ganguly

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Department of Microbiology, N. R. S. Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Moytrey Chatterjee

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Soumendu Bikash Das

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Pratip K. Kundu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Malda Medical College, Malda, West Bengal, India

Subhasish K. Guha

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Tamal K. Ghosh

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Medinipur Medical College, West Medinipur, West Bengal, India

Dilip K. Bera

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Nandita Basu

Affiliation Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Ardhendu K. Maji

maji_ardhendu@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AKM SG. Formal analysis: SG PS AKM TKG NB MC SBD. Methodology: SG PS MC SBD TKG SKG PKK DKB NB AKM. Resources: SG SKG PKK. Writing – original draft: AKM SG PS NB DKB. Writing – review & editing: AKM SG PS.