About the Authors
- Magdy El-Ekiaby
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Affiliation Shabrawishi Blood Bank, Shabrawishi Hospital, Cairo, Egypt
- Mariángela Vargas
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Affiliation Instituto Clodomiro Picado, Facultad de Microbiología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica
- Makram Sayed
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Affiliation Environmental and Food Pollutant Laboratory, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt
- George Gorgy
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Affiliation Shabrawishi Blood Bank, Shabrawishi Hospital, Cairo, Egypt
- Hadi Goubran
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Affiliation Saskatoon Cancer Center, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
- Mirjana Radosevic
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Affiliation Human Protein Process Sciences, Lille, France
- Thierry Burnouf
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* E-mail: thburnouf@gmail.com
Affiliation Graduate Institute of Biomedical Materials and Tissue Engineering, College of Oral Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
Competing Interests
Mirjana Radosevich is a member of Human Protein Process Sciences, a company which contributed scientifically to the development of the described method but has no financial interest. This does not alter our adherence to all PLOS NTDs policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TB MEE MR HG. Performed the experiments: MV MS GG. Analyzed the data: TB MEE MV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MEE TB. Wrote the paper: TB MV MEE MR.