About the Authors

Ayilam Ramachandran Rajalakshmy

Affiliations L & T Microbiology Research Centre, Vision Research Foundation, Chennai, India, Centre for Nanotechnology and Advanced Biomaterials, SASTRA University, Thanjavur, India

Jambulingam Malathi

drjm@snmail.org

Affiliation L & T Microbiology Research Centre, Vision Research Foundation, Chennai, India

Hajib Naraharirao Madhavan

Affiliation L & T Microbiology Research Centre, Vision Research Foundation, Chennai, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ARR. Performed the experiments: ARR. Analyzed the data: ARR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JM HNM. Wrote the paper: ARR JM HNM.