About the Authors

Madhuri Singh

Affiliation School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Ravisekhar Gadepalli

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Benu Dhawan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Kasturi Mukhopadhyay

kasturim@mail.jnu.ac.in

Affiliation School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KM MS. Performed the experiments: MS RG. Analyzed the data: KM MS RG BD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KM. Wrote the paper: KM MS BD.