About the Authors

Aasia Khaliq

Contributed equally to this work with: Aasia Khaliq, Resmi Ravindran, Samia Afzal

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

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Resmi Ravindran

Contributed equally to this work with: Aasia Khaliq, Resmi Ravindran, Samia Afzal

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

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

Samia Afzal

Contributed equally to this work with: Aasia Khaliq, Resmi Ravindran, Samia Afzal

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

Affiliation Kauser Abdulla Malik School of Life Sciences, Forman Christian College, Lahore, Pakistan

Prasant Kumar Jena

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

Muhammad Waheed Akhtar

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Atiqa Ambreen

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Gulab Devi Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan

Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

Kauser Abdulla Malik

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Kauser Abdulla Malik School of Life Sciences, Forman Christian College, Lahore, Pakistan

Muhammad Irfan

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Kauser Abdulla Malik School of Life Sciences, Forman Christian College, Lahore, Pakistan

Imran H. Khan

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

ihkhan@ucdavis.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.