About the Authors

Kalpana Sriraman

Contributed equally to this work with: Kalpana Sriraman, Ambreen Shaikh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Foundation for Medical Research, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Ambreen Shaikh

Contributed equally to this work with: Kalpana Sriraman, Ambreen Shaikh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Foundation for Medical Research, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Swapneil Parikh

Roles Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular Laboratory, Viral Research, and Diagnostic Laboratory, Kasturba Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Sane Guruji Marg, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Shreevatsa Udupa

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular Laboratory, Viral Research, and Diagnostic Laboratory, Kasturba Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Sane Guruji Marg, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Nirjhar Chatterjee

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular Laboratory, Viral Research, and Diagnostic Laboratory, Kasturba Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Sane Guruji Marg, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Jayanthi Shastri

Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work

Affiliations Molecular Laboratory, Viral Research, and Diagnostic Laboratory, Kasturba Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Sane Guruji Marg, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Department of Microbiology, BYL Nair Charitable Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Nerges Mistry

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

fmr@fmrindia.org

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work

Affiliation The Foundation for Medical Research, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.