About the Authors

Aarti Yadav

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

Varshni Sharma

Contributed equally to this work with: Varshni Sharma, Jyoti Pal

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

Jyoti Pal

Contributed equally to this work with: Varshni Sharma, Jyoti Pal

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

Pallavi Gulati

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

Manisha Goel

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biophysics, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

Udita Chandra

Roles Investigation

Current address: Clinical Research Division, Meril Life Sciences, Vapi, India.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

Neha Bansal

Roles Investigation

Current address: Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

Swati Saha

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

ss5gp@yahoo.co.in

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.