About the Authors

Shuvra Kanti Dey

Contributed equally to this work with: Shuvra Kanti Dey, Nadim Sharif

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

shuvradey@yahoo.com

Current address: Department of Microbiology, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Nadim Sharif

Contributed equally to this work with: Shuvra Kanti Dey, Nadim Sharif

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Omar Sadi Sarkar

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Mithun Kumar Sarkar

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Ali Azam Talukder

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Tung Phan

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Hiroshi Ushijima

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Microbiology, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.