About the Authors

Anuradha Rajamanickam

Contributed equally to this work with: Anuradha Rajamanickam, Pavan Kumar Nathella, Aishwarya Venkataraman

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

anuradha@icerindia.org (AR); nathella.pk@icmr.gov.in (NPV)

Affiliation National Institutes of Health-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis-International Center for Excellence in Research, Chennai, India

Pavan Kumar Nathella

Contributed equally to this work with: Anuradha Rajamanickam, Pavan Kumar Nathella, Aishwarya Venkataraman

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

anuradha@icerindia.org (AR); nathella.pk@icmr.gov.in (NPV)

Affiliation ICMR-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Aishwarya Venkataraman

Contributed equally to this work with: Anuradha Rajamanickam, Pavan Kumar Nathella, Aishwarya Venkataraman

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Poovazhagi Varadarjan

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Institute of Child Health and Hospital for Children, Chennai, India

Srinithi Kannan

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Institute of Child Health and Hospital for Children, Chennai, India

Arul Nancy Pandiarajan

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation National Institutes of Health-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis-International Center for Excellence in Research, Chennai, India

Rachel Mariam Renji

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation National Institutes of Health-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis-International Center for Excellence in Research, Chennai, India

Elayarani Elavarasan

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Dr Mehta’s Children’s Hospital, Chennai, India

Akshith Thimmaiah

Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Dr Mehta’s Children’s Hospital, Chennai, India

Kandasamy Sasidaran

Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Dr Mehta’s Children’s Hospital, Chennai, India

Nedunchelian Krishnamoorthy

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Dr Mehta’s Children’s Hospital, Chennai, India

Suresh Natarajan

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Rainbow Children’s Hospital, Chennai, India

Ganesh Ramaswamy

Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Rainbow Children’s Hospital, Chennai, India

Balasubramanian Sundaram

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Kanchi Kamakoti CHILDS Trust Hospital, Chennai, India

Sulochana Putlibai

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Kanchi Kamakoti CHILDS Trust Hospital, Chennai, India

Syed Hissar

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation ICMR-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Elilarasi Selladurai

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Institute of Child Health and Hospital for Children, Chennai, India

K. Ranganathan Uma Devi

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation ICMR-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai, India

Thomas B. Nutman

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Subash Babu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Institutes of Health-National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis-International Center for Excellence in Research, Chennai, India, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.