About the Authors

Naveen Kumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Naveen Kumar, Bidhan Chandra Bera, Benjamin D. Greenbaum, Taruna Anand, Bhupendra Nath Tripathi, Nitin Virmani

Affiliation Immunology Lab, National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases (NIHSAD), Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

Bidhan Chandra Bera

Contributed equally to this work with: Naveen Kumar, Bidhan Chandra Bera, Benjamin D. Greenbaum, Taruna Anand, Bhupendra Nath Tripathi, Nitin Virmani

Affiliation Biotechnology Lab, Veterinary Type Culture Collection, National Research Center on Equines (NRCE), Hisar, Haryana, India

Benjamin D. Greenbaum

Contributed equally to this work with: Naveen Kumar, Bidhan Chandra Bera, Benjamin D. Greenbaum, Taruna Anand, Bhupendra Nath Tripathi, Nitin Virmani

Affiliation Tisch Cancer Institute, Departments of Medicine, Hematology and Medical Pathology, and Pathology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Sandeep Bhatia

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Immunology Lab, National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases (NIHSAD), Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

Richa Sood

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Immunology Lab, National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases (NIHSAD), Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

Pavulraj Selvaraj

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Equine Pathology Lab, National Research Center on Equines (NRCE), Hisar, Haryana, India

Taruna Anand

Contributed equally to this work with: Naveen Kumar, Bidhan Chandra Bera, Benjamin D. Greenbaum, Taruna Anand, Bhupendra Nath Tripathi, Nitin Virmani

Affiliation Biotechnology Lab, Veterinary Type Culture Collection, National Research Center on Equines (NRCE), Hisar, Haryana, India

Bhupendra Nath Tripathi

Contributed equally to this work with: Naveen Kumar, Bidhan Chandra Bera, Benjamin D. Greenbaum, Taruna Anand, Bhupendra Nath Tripathi, Nitin Virmani

Affiliation Equine Pathology Lab, National Research Center on Equines (NRCE), Hisar, Haryana, India

Nitin Virmani

Contributed equally to this work with: Naveen Kumar, Bidhan Chandra Bera, Benjamin D. Greenbaum, Taruna Anand, Bhupendra Nath Tripathi, Nitin Virmani

nvirmani@gmail.com

Affiliation Equine Pathology Lab, National Research Center on Equines (NRCE), Hisar, Haryana, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NV BCB NK. Performed the experiments: NV BDG NK. Analyzed the data: NK BDG BCB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TA BNT BDG RS PS NK. Wrote the paper: NK NV BCB BDG SB.