About the Authors

Swarnali Chakraborty

Contributed equally to this work with: Swarnali Chakraborty, Debayan Ganguli, Theeya Nagaraja

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

Affiliation Department of Clinical Medicine, ICMR - National Institute for Research in Bacterial Infections, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Debayan Ganguli

Contributed equally to this work with: Swarnali Chakraborty, Debayan Ganguli, Theeya Nagaraja

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

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington school of medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Theeya Nagaraja

Contributed equally to this work with: Swarnali Chakraborty, Debayan Ganguli, Theeya Nagaraja

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Biocon Biologics Limited- R&D centre, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Animesh Gope

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Clinical Medicine, ICMR - National Institute for Research in Bacterial Infections, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Sudip Dey

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Clinical Medicine, ICMR - National Institute for Research in Bacterial Infections, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Ananda Pal

Roles Data curation, Project administration

Affiliations Department of Clinical Medicine, ICMR - National Institute for Research in Bacterial Infections, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Rahul Shubhra Mandal

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Sudipta Sekhar Das

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Cancer, Apollo Multispeciality Hospitals Limited, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Santasabuj Das

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

santasabujdas@yahoo.com, santasabujdas@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Clinical Medicine, ICMR - National Institute for Research in Bacterial Infections, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, ICMR-National Institute of Occupational Health, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.