About the Authors

Christopher N. Jondle

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher N. Jondle, Kuldeep Gupta

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Current address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Basic Biomedical Sciences, The University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States of America

Kuldeep Gupta

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher N. Jondle, Kuldeep Gupta

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Basic Biomedical Sciences, The University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States of America

Bibhuti B. Mishra

Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Basic Biomedical Sciences, The University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States of America

Jyotika Sharma

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

jyotika.sharma@med.und.edu

Affiliation Department of Basic Biomedical Sciences, The University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.