About the Authors

Manalee Vishnu Surve

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

Affiliation Bacterial Pathogenesis Lab, Dept. of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, INDIA

Smita Bhutda

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Bacterial Pathogenesis Lab, Dept. of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, INDIA

Akshay Datey

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Dept. of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, INDIA, Centre for Biosystems Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, INDIA

Anjali Anil

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Bacterial Pathogenesis Lab, Dept. of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, INDIA

Shalini Rawat

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Bacterial Pathogenesis Lab, Dept. of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, INDIA

Athira Pushpakaran

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Bacterial Pathogenesis Lab, Dept. of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, INDIA

Dipty Singh

Roles Investigation

Affiliation National Centre for Preclinical Reproductive and Genetic Toxicology, National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health (ICMR), J. M. Street, Parel, Mumbai, INDIA

Kwang Sik Kim

Roles Resources, Validation

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Dipshikha Chakravortty

Roles Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Dept. of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, INDIA

Anirban Banerjee

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

abanerjee@iitb.ac.in

Affiliation Bacterial Pathogenesis Lab, Dept. of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, INDIA

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.