About the Authors

Shweta Gupta

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Parul University, Vadodara, Gujarat, India

Rajesh Kesarla

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, ISF College of Pharmacy, Moga, Punjab, India

Narendra Chotai

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, A. R. College of Pharmacy, Anand, Gujarat, India

Abdelwahab Omri

aomri@laurentian.ca

Affiliation Department of Chemistry& Biochemistry, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

M/s Sun Pharma Ltd. Sikkim and Paradise Healthcare, Vadodara, India provided samples of EFV and TDF, respectively, for the present study and Parul University provided the infrastructural facilities for carrying out the experiments. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SG RK NC AO. Data curation: SG RK NC AO. Formal analysis: SG RK NC AO. Funding acquisition: SG RK NC AO. Investigation: SG RK NC AO. Methodology: SG RK NC AO. Project administration: SG RK NC AO. Resources: SG RK NC AO. Software: SG RK NC AO. Supervision: AO. Validation: SG RK NC AO. Visualization: SG RK NC AO. Writing – original draft: SG RK NC AO. Writing – review & editing: SG RK NC AO.