About the Authors
- Savita Jadhav
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Contributed equally to this work with: Savita Jadhav, Arif Hussain, Savita Devi
Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Dr. D. Y. Patil Medical College and Hospital, Pimpri, Pune, India
- Arif Hussain
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Contributed equally to this work with: Savita Jadhav, Arif Hussain, Savita Devi
Affiliation Pathogen Biology Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
- Savita Devi
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Contributed equally to this work with: Savita Jadhav, Arif Hussain, Savita Devi
Affiliation Pathogen Biology Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
- Ashutosh Kumar
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Affiliation Pathogen Biology Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
- Sana Parveen
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Affiliation Pathogen Biology Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
- Nageshwari Gandham
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Dr. D. Y. Patil Medical College and Hospital, Pimpri, Pune, India
- Lothar H. Wieler
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Affiliation Veterinary Faculty, Institute for Microbiology and Epizootics, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Christa Ewers
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Affiliation Veterinary Faculty, Institute for Microbiology and Epizootics, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Niyaz Ahmed
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* E-mail: niyazSL@uohyd.ernet.in
Affiliations Pathogen Biology Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Institute of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, India
Competing Interests
Niyaz Ahmed is a Section Editor of PLoS ONE and a Member of the PLoS International Advisory Group.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: NA. Performed the experiments: SJ AH SD SP. Analyzed the data: AK CE NA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NG LHW. Wrote the manuscript: CE NA.