About the Authors

Sarah Chamseddine

Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah Chamseddine, Ahmad Chmaisse

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases Research, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Ahmad Chmaisse

Contributed equally to this work with: Sarah Chamseddine, Ahmad Chmaisse

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases Research, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Imad Akel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases Research, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Zeinab El Zein

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations Center for Infectious Diseases Research, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Suzan Khalil

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases Research, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Sarah Abi Raad

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases Research, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Antoine Khati

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases Research, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Hiba Ghandour

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases Research, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Sarah Khafaja

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

Affiliations Center for Infectious Diseases Research, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Magda Haj

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases Research, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Miguel Abboud

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Children’s Cancer Center of Lebanon, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Rami Mahfouz

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliations Center for Infectious Diseases Research, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

George Araj

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliations Center for Infectious Diseases Research, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Hassan Zaraket

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Infectious Diseases Research, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Experimental Pathology, Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Beirut, Lebanon

Rima Hanna-Wakim

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Infectious Diseases Research, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Samar Muwakkit

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Children’s Cancer Center of Lebanon, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Ghassan Dbaibo

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

gdbaibo@aub.edu.lb

Affiliations Center for Infectious Diseases Research, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.