About the Authors

Wael H. Roshdy

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

waelhamedroshdy@yahoo.com (WHR); ghazi@human-link.org (GK); mohamedahmedali2004@yahoo.com (MAA)

Affiliation Central Public Health Laboratory, Ministry of Health and Population, Cairo, Egypt

Helmy A. Rashed

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Central Public Health Laboratory, Ministry of Health and Population, Cairo, Egypt

Ahmed Kandeil

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

Affiliation Center of Scientific Excellence for Influenza Viruses, National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt

Ahmed Mostafa

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

Affiliation Center of Scientific Excellence for Influenza Viruses, National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt

Yassmin Moatasim

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

Affiliation Center of Scientific Excellence for Influenza Viruses, National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt

Omnia Kutkat

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

Affiliation Center of Scientific Excellence for Influenza Viruses, National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt

Noura M. Abo Shama

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Center of Scientific Excellence for Influenza Viruses, National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt

Mokhtar R. Gomaa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Center of Scientific Excellence for Influenza Viruses, National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt

Ibrahim H. El-Sayed

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Kafr El Sheikh University, Kafr El-Shaikh, Egypt

Nancy M. El Guindy

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Central Public Health Laboratory, Ministry of Health and Population, Cairo, Egypt

Amal Naguib

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Central Public Health Laboratory, Ministry of Health and Population, Cairo, Egypt

Ghazi Kayali

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

waelhamedroshdy@yahoo.com (WHR); ghazi@human-link.org (GK); mohamedahmedali2004@yahoo.com (MAA)

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Human Link, Baabda, Lebanon

Mohamed A. Ali

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

waelhamedroshdy@yahoo.com (WHR); ghazi@human-link.org (GK); mohamedahmedali2004@yahoo.com (MAA)

Affiliation Center of Scientific Excellence for Influenza Viruses, National Research Centre, Giza, Egypt

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.