About the Authors

Arwa Alharbi

Contributed equally to this work with: Arwa Alharbi, Seham M. Rabadi

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

Seham M. Rabadi

Contributed equally to this work with: Arwa Alharbi, Seham M. Rabadi

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

Maha Alqahtani

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

Dina Marghani

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

Madeline Worden

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Basic and Clinical Sciences, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Albany, New York, United States of America

Zhuo Ma

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Basic and Clinical Sciences, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Albany, New York, United States of America

Meenakshi Malik

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Shekhar_Bakshi@nymc.edu (CSB); Meenakshi.Malik@acphs.edu (MM)

Affiliation Department of Basic and Clinical Sciences, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Albany, New York, United States of America

Chandra Shekhar Bakshi

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

Shekhar_Bakshi@nymc.edu (CSB); Meenakshi.Malik@acphs.edu (MM)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.