About the Authors

Sanjucta Dutta

Affiliation Division of Bacteriology, National, Collaborative Research Centre of Okayama University for Infectious Diseases in India, West Bengal, India

Sucharita Guin

Affiliation Clinical Division, Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Collaborative Research Centre of Okayama University for Infectious Diseases in India, West Bengal, India

Santanu Ghosh

Affiliation Division of Bacteriology, National, Collaborative Research Centre of Okayama University for Infectious Diseases in India, West Bengal, India

Gururaja P. Pazhani

Affiliation Division of Bacteriology, National, Collaborative Research Centre of Okayama University for Infectious Diseases in India, West Bengal, India

Krishnan Rajendran

Affiliation Division of Bacteriology, National, Collaborative Research Centre of Okayama University for Infectious Diseases in India, West Bengal, India

Mihir K. Bhattacharya

Affiliation Clinical Division, Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Collaborative Research Centre of Okayama University for Infectious Diseases in India, West Bengal, India

Yoshifumi Takeda

Affiliation National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

G. Balakrish Nair

Affiliation Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Thandavarayan Ramamurthy

tramu@vsnl.net

Affiliation Division of Bacteriology, National, Collaborative Research Centre of Okayama University for Infectious Diseases in India, West Bengal, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TR GBN. Performed the experiments: SD S. Guin S. Ghosh GPP. Analyzed the data: KR MKB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MKB YT. Wrote the paper: TR.