About the Authors

Suhail Ahmad

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

suhail_ah@hsc.edu.kw, suhail.ahmad@ku.edu.kw

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Jabriya, Kuwait

Ziauddin Khan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Jabriya, Kuwait

Noura Al-Sweih

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Jabriya, Kuwait

Wadha Alfouzan

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Jabriya, Kuwait

Leena Joseph

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Jabriya, Kuwait

Mohammad Asadzadeh

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Jabriya, Kuwait

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.