About the Authors

Abdelahhad Barbour

Affiliation Institute of Biological Sciences, Microbiology Division, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Koshy Philip

kphil@um.edu.my

Affiliation Institute of Biological Sciences, Microbiology Division, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB KP. Performed the experiments: AB KP. Analyzed the data: AB KP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KP. Wrote the paper: AB KP.