About the Authors

Balgees A. Ajlan

Contributed equally to this work with: Balgees A. Ajlan, Maram M. Alafif

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Maram M. Alafif

Contributed equally to this work with: Balgees A. Ajlan, Maram M. Alafif

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Maha M. Alawi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Infection Control and Environmental Health Unit, King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Naeema A. Akbar

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Ministry of Health, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Eman K. Aldigs

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Tariq A. Madani

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tmadani@kau.edu.sa

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Infection Control and Environmental Health Unit, King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.