About the Authors

Moataz Abd El Ghany

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Moataz.mohamed@sydney.edu.au (MAEG); Peiying.hong@kaust.edu.sa (PYH)

Affiliations Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Hazem Sharaf

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

Mohamed H. Al-agamy

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pharmaceutics and Microbiology, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

Atef Shibl

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Microbiology and Immunology Department, College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Grant A. Hill-Cawthorne

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Pei-Ying Hong

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Moataz.mohamed@sydney.edu.au (MAEG); Peiying.hong@kaust.edu.sa (PYH)

Affiliation Water Desalination and Reuse Center, Environmental Science and Engineering, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.