About the Authors

Balasubramanian Karthikeyan

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Dhanvantri Nagar, Puducherry, India

Tamilarasu Kadhiravan

kadhir@jipmer.edu.in

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Dhanvantri Nagar, Puducherry, India

Surendran Deepanjali

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Dhanvantri Nagar, Puducherry, India

Rathinam Palamalai Swaminathan

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Dhanvantri Nagar, Puducherry, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TK RPS. Performed the experiments: BK. Analyzed the data: TK BK SD. Wrote the paper: TK SD BK RPS.