About the Authors

Divakar Sharma

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, Tajganj, Agra, India

Bhavnesh Kumar

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, Tajganj, Agra, India

Manju Lata

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, Tajganj, Agra, India

Beenu Joshi

Affiliation Department of Immunology, National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, Tajganj, Agra, India

Krishnamurthy Venkatesan

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, Tajganj, Agra, India

Sangeeta Shukla

Affiliation School of Studies in Zoology, Jiwaji University, Gwalior, India

Deepa Bisht

abd1109@rediffmail.com

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, Tajganj, Agra, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DS DB. Performed the experiments: DS BK ML. Analyzed the data: DS DB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DB BJ. Wrote the paper: DS DB BJ KV SS.