About the Authors

Avirup Chakraborty

Affiliation ICMR Virus Unit, Kolkata, ID & BG Hospital, GB4, 57 Dr. SC Banerjee Road Beliaghata, Kolkata 700 010, India

Tanmay Mahapatra

Affiliation Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Sanchita Mahapatra

Affiliation Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Sabbir Ansari

Affiliation ICMR Virus Unit, Kolkata, ID & BG Hospital, GB4, 57 Dr. SC Banerjee Road Beliaghata, Kolkata 700 010, India

Sattik Siddhanta

Affiliation Calcutta Medical College and Hospital, Department of general Medicine, Kolkata 700073, India

Siwalik Banerjee

Affiliation Calcutta Medical College and Hospital, Department of general Medicine, Kolkata 700073, India

Dipanjan Banerjee

Affiliation Calcutta Medical College and Hospital, Apex Clinic, Kolkata 700073, India

Rathindra Nath Sarkar

Affiliation Calcutta Medical College and Hospital, Department of general Medicine, Kolkata 700073, India

Subhashish Kamal Guha

Affiliation School of Tropical Medicine, Department of Virology, Kolkata 700 073, India

Nilanjan Chakraborty

nilanjan_19@yahoo.com

Affiliation ICMR Virus Unit, Kolkata, ID & BG Hospital, GB4, 57 Dr. SC Banerjee Road Beliaghata, Kolkata 700 010, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AC SA SS SB NC. Performed the experiments: AC RNS DB SKG NC. Analyzed the data: AC TM SM SA NC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TM SM RNS DB SKG. Wrote the paper: AC TM SM SA NC.