About the Authors

Leondios G. Kostrikis

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

lkostrik@ucy.ac.cy

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cyprus, Aglantzia, Nicosia, Cyprus

Johana Hezka

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cyprus, Aglantzia, Nicosia, Cyprus

Dora C. Stylianou

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cyprus, Aglantzia, Nicosia, Cyprus

Evangelia Kostaki

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Goudi, Athens, Greece

Maria Andreou

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cyprus, Aglantzia, Nicosia, Cyprus

Ioanna Kousiappa

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cyprus, Aglantzia, Nicosia, Cyprus

Dimitrios Paraskevis

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Goudi, Athens, Greece

Ioannis Demetriades

Roles Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation AIDS Clinic, Larnaca General Hospital, Larnaca, Cyprus

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.