About the Authors

Salman Khan

Contributed equally to this work with: Salman Khan, Arghya Das

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, National Cancer Institute, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (Jhajjar-campus), New Delhi, India

Arghya Das

Contributed equally to this work with: Salman Khan, Arghya Das

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

arghyadas2401@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Madurai, India

Deepali Vashisth

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, New Delhi, India

Anwita Mishra

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

‡ AM and AJV also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Mahamana Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya Cancer Centre and Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Ashima Jain Vidyarthi

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ AM and AJV also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, National Cancer Institute, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (Jhajjar-campus), New Delhi, India

Raghav Gupta

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Oncoanesthesia and Palliative Medicine, National Cancer Institute, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (Jhajjar-Campus), New Delhi, India

Nazneen Nahar Begam

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India

Babita Kataria

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Institute, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (Jhajjar-Campus), New Delhi, India

Sushma Bhatnagar

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Mahamana Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya Cancer Centre and Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.