About the Authors

Marwa K. Ibrahim

khalilm@livemail.uthscsa.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbial Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering Division, National Research Centre, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

Ghada Maher Salum

Affiliation Department of Microbial Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering Division, National Research Centre, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

Noha G. Bader El Din

Affiliation Department of Microbial Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering Division, National Research Centre, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

Reham M. Dawood

Affiliation Department of Microbial Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering Division, National Research Centre, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

Ahmed Barakat

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Ahmed Khairy

Affiliation Endemic Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

Mostafa K. El Awady

Affiliation Department of Microbial Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering Division, National Research Centre, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ME MI RD. Performed the experiments: MI GS AK NB. Analyzed the data: MI AB ME. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ME. Wrote the paper: MI ME.