About the Authors

Asma Hassani

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Tawam Hospital Campus, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE

John R. Corboy

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Rocky Mountain MS Center at University of Colorado, Aurora, United States of America

Suhail Al-Salam

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Tawam Hospital Campus, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE

Gulfaraz Khan

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

g_khan@uaeu.ac.ae

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Tawam Hospital Campus, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE

Competing Interests

Gulfaraz Khan is on the Editorial Board of PloS One.