About the Authors

Mohammad Faheem

Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammad Faheem, Md Tabish Rehman

Affiliation Medical Microbiology and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, UP, India

Md Tabish Rehman

Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammad Faheem, Md Tabish Rehman

Affiliation Medical Microbiology and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, UP, India

Mohd Danishuddin

Affiliation Medical Microbiology and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, UP, India

Asad U. Khan

asad.k@rediffmail.com

Affiliation Medical Microbiology and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, UP, India

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following conflicts: Asad U. Khan is an Academic editor of PLOS ONE. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AUK MTR. Performed the experiments: MF MTR. Analyzed the data: AUK MTR MF MD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AUK. Wrote the paper: MTR AUK.