About the Authors
- Nahed Al Laham
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Contributed equally to this work with: Nahed Al Laham, José R. Mediavilla
Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Al Azhar University-Gaza, Gaza Strip, Palestine, Public Health Research Institute, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America
- José R. Mediavilla
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Contributed equally to this work with: Nahed Al Laham, José R. Mediavilla
Affiliation Public Health Research Institute, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America
- Liang Chen
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Affiliation Public Health Research Institute, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America
- Nahed Abdelateef
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Affiliation The Central Laboratories, Ministry of Health, Gaza Strip, Palestine
- Farid Abu Elamreen
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Affiliation The Central Laboratories, Ministry of Health, Gaza Strip, Palestine
- Christine C. Ginocchio
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Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, North Shore-LIJ Health System, Lake Success, New York, United States of America, Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, Hempstead, New York, United States of America
- Denis Pierard
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Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
- Karsten Becker
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Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital of Muenster, Muenster, Germany
- Barry N. Kreiswirth
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* E-mail: kreiswba@njms.rutgers.edu
Affiliation Public Health Research Institute, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: NAL JRM LC DP KB BNK. Performed the experiments: NAL JRM LC NA FAE CCG. Analyzed the data: NAL JRM LC CCG DP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NA FAE CCG DP KB BNK. Wrote the paper: NAL JRM KB BNK.