About the Authors

Vikram Mehraj

Affiliations Department of Pathology & Microbiology, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, Unité Mixte de Recherche 6236, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France

Juanita Hatcher

Affiliation Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Saeed Akhtar

Affiliations Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, Department of Community Medicine and Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait

Ghazala Rafique

Affiliation Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Mohammad Asim Beg

masim.beg@aku.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology & Microbiology, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VM JH MAB. Performed the experiments: VM. Analyzed the data: VM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VM JH SA GR MAB. Wrote the paper: VM JH SA GR MAB.