About the Authors

Asmaa M. Zahran

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pathology, South Egypt Cancer Institute, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

Omnia El-Badawy

Roles Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

Wageeh A. Ali

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

Zainab Gaber Mahran

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine and Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

Essam Eldeen M. O. Mahran

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine and Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

Amal Rayan

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – original draft

amal3774rayan@gmail.com, amalrayan@aun.edu.eg

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Clinical Oncology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.