About the Authors

Shally Awasthi

sawasthi@sancharnet.in

Affiliation King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India

Girdhar Agarwal

Affiliation Lucknow University, Lucknow, India

Sushil K. Kabra

Affiliation All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi, India

Sunit Singhi

Affiliation Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Chandigarh, India

Madhuri Kulkarni

Affiliation Lok Manya Tilak Medical College, Mumbai, India

Vaishali More

Affiliation Lok Manya Tilak Medical College, Mumbai, India

Abhimanyu Niswade

Affiliation Government Medical College, Nagpur, India

Raj Mohan Pillai

Affiliation Government Medical College, Trivandrum, India

Ravi Luke

Affiliation Madras Medical College, Chennai, India

Neeraj M. Srivastava

Affiliation King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India

Saradha Suresh

Affiliation Madras Medical College, Chennai, India

Valsan P. Verghese

Affiliation Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

P. Raghupathy

Affiliation Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

R. Lodha

Affiliation All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi, India

Stephen D. Walter

Affiliation McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SA VV GA SK SSinghi MK RP SSuresh PR. Performed the experiments: SA VV SK SSinghi MK VM AN RP RL NS SSuresh PR RL. Analyzed the data: SA GA SW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SK SSinghi MK VM AN RL RL. Wrote the paper: SA GA SK SSinghi MK VM AN RP NS SW.