About the Authors

Yoong Min Chong

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

I-Ching Sam

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

jicsam@ummc.edu.my (I-CS); chanyf@um.edu.my (YFC)

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Jennifer Chong

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Maria Kahar Bador

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Sasheela Ponnampalavanar

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Sharifah Faridah Syed Omar

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Adeeba Kamarulzaman

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Vijayan Munusamy

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Chee Kuan Wong

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Fadhil Hadi Jamaluddin

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Yoke Fun Chan

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

jicsam@ummc.edu.my (I-CS); chanyf@um.edu.my (YFC)

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.