About the Authors

Khaled Al-Obaid

Contributed equally to this work with: Khaled Al-Obaid, Mohammad Asadzadeh

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Microbiology, Department of Medical Laboratories, Al-Amiri Hospital, Sharq, Kuwait

Mohammad Asadzadeh

Contributed equally to this work with: Khaled Al-Obaid, Mohammad Asadzadeh

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait

Suhail Ahmad

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

suhail_ah@hsc.edu.kw

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait

Ziauddin Khan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.