About the Authors

Durbadal Ojha

Affiliation ICMR Virus Unit, ID and BG Hospital, General Block 4, 57 Dr Suresh Chandra Banerjee Road, Beliaghata, Kolkata 700010, India

Rashmi Das

Affiliation ICMR Virus Unit, ID and BG Hospital, General Block 4, 57 Dr Suresh Chandra Banerjee Road, Beliaghata, Kolkata 700010, India

Parveen Sobia

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, College of Cell Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4001, South Africa

Vedprakash Dwivedi

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, College of Cell Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4001, South Africa

Soma Ghosh

Affiliations ICMR Virus Unit, ID and BG Hospital, General Block 4, 57 Dr Suresh Chandra Banerjee Road, Beliaghata, Kolkata 700010, India, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, Raja SC Mallick Road, Kolkata 700032, India

Amalesh Samanta

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, Raja SC Mallick Road, Kolkata 700032, India

Debprasad Chattopadhyay

debprasadc@gmail.com

Affiliation ICMR Virus Unit, ID and BG Hospital, General Block 4, 57 Dr Suresh Chandra Banerjee Road, Beliaghata, Kolkata 700010, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DC DO. Performed the experiments: DO RD PS VPD SG. Analyzed the data: DC DO AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DC. Wrote the paper: DC DO.