underway in our laboratories and will be reported on in due course.
Conflict of interest statement We declare that we have no conflict of interest. Acknowledgments The authors are thankful to the authorities of Alagappa University for providing required facilities and also to Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi for financial assistance for doing Ph.D degree (Samuel Jacob Inbaneson).
The authors are also grateful to Prof. Dr. Hemalatha Balaraman, Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore for providing us the parasite.