About the Authors

Sarman Singh

sarman_singh@yahoo.com

Affiliation Clinical Microbiology Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Jitendra Singh

Contributed equally to this work with: Jitendra Singh, Sandeep Kumar

Affiliation Clinical Microbiology Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Sandeep Kumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Jitendra Singh, Sandeep Kumar

Affiliation Clinical Microbiology Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Krishnamoorthy Gopinath

Affiliation Clinical Microbiology Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Veena Balooni

Affiliation Clinical Microbiology Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Niti Singh

Affiliation Lala Ram Sarup Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, New Delhi, India

Kalaivani Mani

Affiliation Department of Biostatics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS SK KG NS. Performed the experiments: SK JS KG VB. Analyzed the data: SK JS NS KG SS KM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS. Wrote the paper: SS SK.