About the Authors

Duncan B. Johnstone

Duncan.Johnstone@tuhs.temple.edu

Current address: Division of Nephrology, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

These authors were co-Principal Investigators for the USA and Indian teams, respectively.

Affiliation Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Vijay Shegokar

These authors were co-Principal Investigators for the USA and Indian teams, respectively.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Government Medical Hospital, Nagpur, Maharastra, India

Deepak Nihalani

Affiliation Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yogendra Singh Rathore

Affiliation CSIR- Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Leena Mallik

Affiliation CSIR- Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Ashish

Affiliation CSIR- Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Vasant Zare

Affiliation Public Health Institute of Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

H. Omer Ikizler

Affiliation Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Rajaram Powar

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Government Medical Hospital, Nagpur, Maharastra, India

Lawrence B. Holzman

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Government Medical Hospital, Nagpur, Maharastra, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Logistics: DN YSR. Supervision: LBH RP. Conceived and designed the experiments: DBJ VS. Performed the experiments: DBJ DN YSR LM A. Analyzed the data: DBJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DBJ VS A VZ LBH. Wrote the paper: DBJ OI.