About the Authors

Tanmay Mahapatra

Affiliation National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P-33, Scheme—XM, Beliaghata, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Subrata Biswas

Affiliation National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P-33, Scheme—XM, Beliaghata, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Srijita Nandi

Affiliation National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P-33, Scheme—XM, Beliaghata, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Piyali Ghosh

Affiliation National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P-33, Scheme—XM, Beliaghata, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Mallika Ghosh

Affiliation National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P-33, Scheme—XM, Beliaghata, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Soumya Mondal

Affiliation Monitoring and Evaluation Division, West Bengal AIDS Prevention and Control Society, Salt Lake, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Malay K. Saha

sahamk@yahoo.com

Affiliation National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P-33, Scheme—XM, Beliaghata, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MKS SB TM. Performed the experiments: SN SB SM PG MG. Analyzed the data: TM SB SM SN PG MG MKS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MKS SB SN TM. Wrote the paper: TM MKS SB SN PG MG SM.