About the Authors

Poornima Sankar

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Ramon Bossardi Ramos

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Jamie Corro

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Division of Genetics, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

Lokesh K. Mishra

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Tanvir Noor Nafiz

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Gunapati Bhargavi

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Public Health Research Institute, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Mohd Saqib

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Sibongiseni K. L. Poswayo

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa (CIDRI-Africa) and Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine (IDM), Division of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Suraj P. Parihar

Roles Resources

Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa (CIDRI-Africa) and Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine (IDM), Division of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Yi Cai

Roles Resources

Affiliation Guangdong Key Laboratory of Regional Immunity and Diseases, Department of Pathogen Biology, Shenzhen University Medical School, Shenzhen, China

Selvakumar Subbian

Roles Resources

Affiliation Public Health Research Institute, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Anil K. Ojha

Roles Resources

Affiliation Division of Genetics, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

Bibhuti B. Mishra

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mishrab@amc.edu

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbial Disease, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.