About the Authors

Sau Har Lee

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Indu Bala Jaganath

Affiliation Biotechnology Centre, Malaysia Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI), Serdang, Malaysia

Seok Mui Wang

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Shamala Devi Sekaran

shamalamy@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SHL SDS. Performed the experiments: SHL IBJ. Analyzed the data: SHL SDS SMW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IBJ SDS. Wrote the paper: SHL IBJ SDS SMW.