About the Authors

Ujjwal Neogi

ujjwal.neogi@ki.se

Affiliations Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Division of Clinical Virology, Department of Microbiology, St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Irene Bontell

Affiliation Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Anita Shet

Affiliations Division of Global Health (IHCAR), Nobels Väg 9, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Pediatrics, St. John’s Medical College Hospital, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Ayesha De Costa

Affiliation Division of Global Health (IHCAR), Nobels Väg 9, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Soham Gupta

Affiliation Division of Clinical Virology, Department of Microbiology, St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Vishal Diwan

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Environment, R. D. Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India

Ranbir S. Laishram

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Regional Institute of Medical Science, Imphal, Manipur, India

Ajay Wanchu

Affiliations Departnemt of Internal Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India, Division of Arthritis and Rheumatic Disease, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland Oregon, United States of America

Udaykumar Ranga

Affiliation Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Akhil C. Banerjea

Affiliation Virology-II, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India

Anders Sönnerborg

Affiliations Unit of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine Huddinge, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Division of Clinical Virology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UN A. Shet A. Sonnerborg IB. Performed the experiments: UN SG IB. Analyzed the data: UN IB A. Shet ADC A. Sönnerborg. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VD RSL AW UR ACB. Wrote the paper: UN IB A. Shet ADC UR A. Sonnerborg. Coordinators for the respective sites, helped in patient recruitments and patients clinical data analyse: A. Shet VD RSL AW ACB.