About the Authors

Mădălina Preda

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Parasitology and Virology, Faculty of Midwives and Nursing, ‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania, ‘Cantacuzino’ National Medico-Military Research and Development Institute, Bucharest, Romania

Mara Mădălina Mihai

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

mara.mihai@umfcd.ro (MMM); lpbio_laura@yahoo.com (LIP)

Affiliations Department of Oncologic Dermatology, ‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania, Department of Dermatology, ‘Elias’ University Emergency Hospital, Bucharest, Romania

Laura Ioana Popa

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

mara.mihai@umfcd.ro (MMM); lpbio_laura@yahoo.com (LIP)

Affiliations Department of Bioinformatics, The National Institute of Research and Development for Biological Sciences, Bucharest, Romania, Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB), Bucharest, Romania

Lia-Mara Dițu

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision

Affiliations Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB), Bucharest, Romania, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Alina Maria Holban

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

Affiliations Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB), Bucharest, Romania, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Loredana Sabina Cornelia Manolescu

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Parasitology and Virology, Faculty of Midwives and Nursing, ‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania

Gabriela-Loredana Popa

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Dental Medicine, ‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania

Andrei-Alexandru Muntean

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ‘Cantacuzino’ National Medico-Military Research and Development Institute, Bucharest, Romania

Irina Gheorghe

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliations Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB), Bucharest, Romania, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Carmen Mariana Chifiriuc

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Validation

Affiliations Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB), Bucharest, Romania, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Mircea-Ioan Popa

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

Affiliations ‘Cantacuzino’ National Medico-Military Research and Development Institute, Bucharest, Romania, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, ‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.