About the Authors

Parul Jain

Contributed equally to this work with: Parul Jain, Shantanu Prakash

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, India

Shantanu Prakash

Contributed equally to this work with: Parul Jain, Shantanu Prakash

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, India

Piyush K. Tripathi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, India

Archana Chauhan

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software, Validation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, India

Shikha Gupta

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, India

Umesh Sharma

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Patna Medical College, Patna, Bihar, India

Anil K. Jaiswal

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Patna Medical College, Patna, Bihar, India

Devraj Sharma

Roles Investigation, Software

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Patna Medical College, Patna, Bihar, India

Amita Jain

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

amita602002@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, India

Competing Interests

PJ was paid salary by the Post MD-PhD Program 2014 by the Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India.