About the Authors

Madhumita S. Tawre

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Ekta E. Kamble

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Shital N. Kumkar

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Mansura S. Mulani

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Karishma R. Pardesi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

karishma@unipune.ac.in

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.