About the Authors

Mohammad Asadzadeh

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait

Suhail Ahmad

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait

Ferry Hagen

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Jacques F. Meis

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Noura Al-Sweih

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait

Ziauddin Khan

Zkhan@hsc.edu.kw

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA SA NA ZK. Performed the experiments: MA FH. Analyzed the data: MA SA FH JFM NA ZK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JFM ZK. Wrote the paper: MA SA FH JFM NA ZK.