About the Authors

Faiz Ahmed Raza

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

faiz.raza@gmail.com

Affiliations Institute of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan, National Institute of Health (NIH), Health Research Institute, Research Centre, Fatima Jinnah Medical University, Lahore, Pakistan

Hasnain Javed

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Advance Diagnostic Laboratory, Punjab AIDS Control Program, Lahore, Pakistan

Muhammad Mujeeb Khan

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Rawalpindi Medical University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Obaid Ullah

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Institute of Health (NIH), Health Research Institute, Research Centre, Khyber Medical College, Peshawar, Pakistan

Areeba Fatima

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore, Pakistan

Muhammad Zaheer

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Advance Diagnostic Laboratory, Punjab AIDS Control Program, Lahore, Pakistan

Saima Mohsin

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

Affiliation National Institute of Health (NIH), Health Research Institute, Research Centre, Shaikh Zayed Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan

Shahida Hasnain

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Ruqyya Khalid

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore, Pakistan

Arslan Ahmed Salam

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

Affiliation National Institute of Health (NIH), Health Research Institute, Head Office, Islamabad, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.