About the Authors

Raja Dhar

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

‡ RD and JK share first authorship on this work. RD and SDG are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Pulmonology, CMRI Hospital, Kolkata, India

John Kirkpatrick

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft

‡ RD and JK share first authorship on this work. RD and SDG are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation John Kirkpatrick, MSc, Independent Researcher, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Laura Gilbert

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Laura Gilbert, Rutherford Research, Hampshire, United Kingdom

Arjun Khanna

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical care medicine, Yashoda Superspeciality Hospital, Kaushambi, Ghaziabad, UP, India

Mahavir Madhavdas Modi

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Ruby Hall Clinic, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Rakesh K. Chawla

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Saroj Super Speciality Hospital and Jaipur Golden Hospital, Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Critical Care and Sleep Disorders, New Delhi, India

Sonia Dalal

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Sterling Hospital and Kalyan Hospital, Vadodara, India

Venkata Nagarjuna Maturu

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Yashoda Hospitals, Hyderabad, India

Marcel Stern

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

Affiliation Max von Pettenkofer Institute and Gene Center, Virology, National Reference Center for Retroviruses, Faculty of Medicine, LMU München, Munich, Germany

Oliver T. Keppler

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

Affiliation Max von Pettenkofer Institute and Gene Center, Virology, National Reference Center for Retroviruses, Faculty of Medicine, LMU München, Munich, Germany

Ratko Djukanovic

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

‡ RD and JK share first authorship on this work. RD and SDG are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom

Stephan D. Gadola

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

Stephan.Gadola@bethesda-spital.ch

‡ RD and JK share first authorship on this work. RD and SDG are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, Rheumatology and Pain Medicine, Bethesda Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.