About the Authors

Mohamed Hagras

Contributed equally to this work with: Mohamed Hagras, Nader S. Abutaleb

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

Nader S. Abutaleb

Contributed equally to this work with: Mohamed Hagras, Nader S. Abutaleb

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Comparative Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

Ahmed M. Sayed

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

Ehab A. Salama

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Department of Comparative Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Mohamed N. Seleem

Roles Conceptualization

seleem@vt.edu (MNS); amayhoub@azhar.edu.eg (ASM)

Affiliations Department of Comparative Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Center for Emerging, Zoonotic and Arthropod-borne Pathogens, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Abdelrahman S. Mayhoub

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation

seleem@vt.edu (MNS); amayhoub@azhar.edu.eg (ASM)

Affiliations Department of Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt, Nanoscience Program, Zewail City of Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology, Giza, Egypt

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.