About the Authors

Sojan Abraham

Contributed equally to this work with: Sojan Abraham, Rajendra Pahwa

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Center of Excellence in Infectious Disease Research, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Rajendra Pahwa

Contributed equally to this work with: Sojan Abraham, Rajendra Pahwa

Affiliation Max Healthcare Super Specialty Hospital and Max Research Institute 1, Saket New Delhi, India

Chunting Ye

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Center of Excellence in Infectious Disease Research, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Jang-gi Choi

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Center of Excellence in Infectious Disease Research, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Savita Pahwa

Affiliation Developmental Center for AIDS Research, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Shashidhar Jaggaiahgari

Affiliation Max Healthcare Super Specialty Hospital and Max Research Institute 1, Saket New Delhi, India

Ashwin Raut

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Center of Excellence in Infectious Disease Research, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Shuiping Chen

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Center of Excellence in Infectious Disease Research, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

N. Manjunath

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Center of Excellence in Infectious Disease Research, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Premlata Shankar

Premlata.shankar@ttuhsc.edu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Center of Excellence in Infectious Disease Research, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SA PS NM RP SP. Performed the experiments: SA CY JC SJ SC AR. Analyzed the data: SA PS NM RP SP. Wrote the paper: SA PS. Critically reviewed and edited the manuscript: MN RP PSc.