About the Authors

Indrajit Lahiri

Contributed equally to this work with: Indrajit Lahiri, Purba Mukherjee

Affiliations Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University at Albany School of Public Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

Purba Mukherjee

Contributed equally to this work with: Indrajit Lahiri, Purba Mukherjee

Affiliations Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University at Albany School of Public Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

Janice D. Pata

jpata@wadsworth.org

Affiliations Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University at Albany School of Public Health, Albany, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IL PM JDP. Performed the experiments: IL PM. Analyzed the data: IL PM JDP. Wrote the paper: IL PM JDP.