About the Authors

Duygu Tecer

Contributed equally to this work with: Duygu Tecer, Feride Gogus, Ayse Kalkanci, Merve Erdogan, Kadir Serdar Diker

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Division of Rheumatology, Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

Feride Gogus

Contributed equally to this work with: Duygu Tecer, Feride Gogus, Ayse Kalkanci, Merve Erdogan, Kadir Serdar Diker

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Division of Rheumatology, Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

Ayse Kalkanci

Contributed equally to this work with: Duygu Tecer, Feride Gogus, Ayse Kalkanci, Merve Erdogan, Kadir Serdar Diker

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

aysekalkanci@email.com, kalkanci@gazi.edu.tr

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

Merve Erdogan

Contributed equally to this work with: Duygu Tecer, Feride Gogus, Ayse Kalkanci, Merve Erdogan, Kadir Serdar Diker

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

Murat Hasanreisoglu

Roles Data curation, Investigation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

Çagri Ergin

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Pamukkale University Faculty of Medicine, Denizli, Turkey

Tarkan Karakan

Roles Investigation, Methodology

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

Ramazan Kozan

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

Seda Coban

Roles Investigation, Methodology

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Medical student, Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

Kadir Serdar Diker

Contributed equally to this work with: Duygu Tecer, Feride Gogus, Ayse Kalkanci, Merve Erdogan, Kadir Serdar Diker

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Adnan Menderes University, Aydin, Turkey

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.