About the Authors

Abimbola Allison

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Public Health Microbiology Laboratory, Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Aliyar Cyrus Fouladkhah

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

afouladk@tnstate.edu, aliyar.fouladkhah@aya.yale.edu

Affiliation Public Health Microbiology Laboratory, Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare no conflict of interest. The content of the current publication does not necessarily reflect views of the funding agencies. Authors declare no competing interest associated with any of the funding agencies and funding provided for conduct of the project does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.