About the Authors

Chaitanya Tellapragada

Contributed equally to this work with: Chaitanya Tellapragada, Aayushi Kamthan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, Manipal, India

Aayushi Kamthan

Contributed equally to this work with: Chaitanya Tellapragada, Aayushi Kamthan

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Defense Research and Development Organization, Gwalior, India

Tushar Shaw

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, Manipal, India

Vandana KE

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, Manipal, India

Subodh Kumar

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Defense Research and Development Organization, Gwalior, India

Vinod Bhat

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, Manipal, India

Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay

chiranjay.m@manipal.edu

Current address: Professor, Department of Microbiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, Manipal, India

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, Manipal, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interest exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CM VK VB. Data curation: CT SK. Formal analysis: AK TS. Funding acquisition: CM. Investigation: CT AK TS. Methodology: CT VK. Project administration: CM SK. Resources: CM VB SK. Software: CT TS AK. Supervision: CM VK SK. Validation: VK. Visualization: TS. Writing – original draft: CT. Writing – review & editing: VK CM SK.