About the Authors

Mahesh Moorthy

Affiliation Department of Clinical Virology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Prasanna Samuel

Affiliation Departmentof Biostatistics, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

John Victor Peter

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Saranya Vijayakumar

Affiliation Department of Clinical Virology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Dipika Sekhar

Affiliation Department of Clinical Virology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Valsan P. Verghese

Affiliation Department of Child Health, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Indira Agarwal

Affiliation Department of Child Health, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Prabhakar D. Moses

Affiliation Department of Child Health, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Kala Ebenezer

Affiliation Department of Child Health, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Ooriapadickal Cherian Abraham

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Kurien Thomas

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Prasad Mathews

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Akhilesh C. Mishra

Affiliation National Institute of Virology, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Renu Lal

Affiliation Influenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Resppiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jayaprakash Muliyil

Affiliation Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Asha Mary Abraham

asha_ma@cmcvellore.ac.in

Affiliation Department of Clinical Virology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM VV OCA JM AMA RL. Performed the experiments: SV DS IA PDM KE KT PM. Analyzed the data: MM PS JVP SV DS ACM JM AMA RL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ACM. Wrote the paper: MM JM RL. Approved of the final version for submission: MM PS JVP SV DS VV IA PDM KE OCA KT PM ACM JM AMA.