About the Authors

Vinoth Kumarasamy

Contributed equally to this work with: Vinoth Kumarasamy, Umah Rani Kuppusamy, Pailoor Jayalakshmi, Chandramathi Samudi, Nanthiney Devi Ragavan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, MAHSA University, Bandar Saujana Putra, Shah Alam, Malaysia

Umah Rani Kuppusamy

Contributed equally to this work with: Vinoth Kumarasamy, Umah Rani Kuppusamy, Pailoor Jayalakshmi, Chandramathi Samudi, Nanthiney Devi Ragavan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Pailoor Jayalakshmi

Contributed equally to this work with: Vinoth Kumarasamy, Umah Rani Kuppusamy, Pailoor Jayalakshmi, Chandramathi Samudi, Nanthiney Devi Ragavan

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Chandramathi Samudi

Contributed equally to this work with: Vinoth Kumarasamy, Umah Rani Kuppusamy, Pailoor Jayalakshmi, Chandramathi Samudi, Nanthiney Devi Ragavan

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Nanthiney Devi Ragavan

Contributed equally to this work with: Vinoth Kumarasamy, Umah Rani Kuppusamy, Pailoor Jayalakshmi, Chandramathi Samudi, Nanthiney Devi Ragavan

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Medicine, Mahsa University, Bandar Saujana Putra, Shah Alam, Malaysia

Suresh Kumar

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

suresh@um.edu.my

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.