About the Authors

Gopiram Syangtan

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

Affiliation Department of Infection and Immunology, Kathmandu Research Institute for Biological Sciences, Lalitpur, Bagmati, Nepal

Sauhardra Manandhar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Infection and Immunology, Kathmandu Research Institute for Biological Sciences, Lalitpur, Bagmati, Nepal

Manjula Bhattarai

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infection and Immunology, Kathmandu Research Institute for Biological Sciences, Lalitpur, Bagmati, Nepal

Binu Shah

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infection and Immunology, Kathmandu Research Institute for Biological Sciences, Lalitpur, Bagmati, Nepal

Minu Singh

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Infection and Immunology, Kathmandu Research Institute for Biological Sciences, Lalitpur, Bagmati, Nepal

Binod Rayamajhee

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rayamajheebinod@gmail.com, binod.rayamajhee@mq.edu.au

Affiliations Department of Infection and Immunology, Kathmandu Research Institute for Biological Sciences, Lalitpur, Bagmati, Nepal, School of Optometry and Vision Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Anurag Adhikari

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

Affiliation Department of Infection and Immunology, Kathmandu Research Institute for Biological Sciences, Lalitpur, Bagmati, Nepal

Competing Interests

The All authors have declared that no competing interests exist.