About the Authors

Aditya K. Panda

Affiliation Infectious Disease Biology Group, Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

Madhumita Panda

Affiliation Infectious Disease Biology Group, Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

Rina Tripathy

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, S.C.B. Medical College, Cuttack, Odisha, India

Sarit S. Pattanaik

Affiliation Department of Medicine, S.C.B. Medical College, Cuttack, Odisha, India

Balachandran Ravindran

bidyutdas@hotmail.com (BKD); ravindran8@gmail.com (BR)

Affiliation Infectious Disease Biology Group, Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

Bidyut K. Das

bidyutdas@hotmail.com (BKD); ravindran8@gmail.com (BR)

Affiliation Department of Medicine, S.C.B. Medical College, Cuttack, Odisha, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AKP RT SSP BR BKD. Performed the experiments: AKP MP RT. Analyzed the data: AKP MP SSP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BR RT BKD. Wrote the paper: AKP MP SSP BKD.