About the Authors

Bashir Ahmad Fomda

bashirfomda@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Asiya Khan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Manzoor Ahmad Thokar

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Ajaz Ahmad Malik

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Anjum Fazili

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Rayees Ahmad Dar

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Monika Sharma

Affiliation Department of Medical Parasitology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

Nancy Malla

Affiliation Department of Medical Parasitology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BAF MAT NM. Performed the experiments: AK MS. Analyzed the data: BAF RAD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AAM AF BAF RAD. Wrote the paper: BAF AK NM. Follow-up of seropositve subjects: AAM.