About the Authors

Noor Salloum

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

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pathology, Immunology and Microbiology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Hadi M. Hussein

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

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pathology, Immunology and Microbiology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Rana Jammaz

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pathology, Immunology and Microbiology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Sara Jiche

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pathology, Immunology and Microbiology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Imad W. Uthman

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Alexander M. Abdelnoor

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pathology, Immunology and Microbiology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Elias A. Rahal

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

er00@aub.edu.lb

Affiliation Department of Experimental Pathology, Immunology and Microbiology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.