About the Authors

Imad M. Tleyjeh

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

Tleyjeh.Imad@mayo.edu

Affiliations Infectious Diseases Section, Department of Medical Specialties, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Division of Infectious Diseases, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, MN, United States of America, Division of Epidemiology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, MN, United States of America

Basema Saddik

Contributed equally to this work with: Basema Saddik, Nourah AlSwaidan, Ahmed AlAnazi, Rakhee K. Ramakrishnan, Deema Alhazmi, Ahmad Aloufi, Fahad AlSumait

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

Affiliations College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Sharjah Institute for Medical Research, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Nourah AlSwaidan

Contributed equally to this work with: Basema Saddik, Nourah AlSwaidan, Ahmed AlAnazi, Rakhee K. Ramakrishnan, Deema Alhazmi, Ahmad Aloufi, Fahad AlSumait

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medical Specialties, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Ahmed AlAnazi

Contributed equally to this work with: Basema Saddik, Nourah AlSwaidan, Ahmed AlAnazi, Rakhee K. Ramakrishnan, Deema Alhazmi, Ahmad Aloufi, Fahad AlSumait

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medical Specialties, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Rakhee K. Ramakrishnan

Contributed equally to this work with: Basema Saddik, Nourah AlSwaidan, Ahmed AlAnazi, Rakhee K. Ramakrishnan, Deema Alhazmi, Ahmad Aloufi, Fahad AlSumait

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Sharjah Institute for Medical Research, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Deema Alhazmi

Contributed equally to this work with: Basema Saddik, Nourah AlSwaidan, Ahmed AlAnazi, Rakhee K. Ramakrishnan, Deema Alhazmi, Ahmad Aloufi, Fahad AlSumait

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medical Specialties, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Ahmad Aloufi

Contributed equally to this work with: Basema Saddik, Nourah AlSwaidan, Ahmed AlAnazi, Rakhee K. Ramakrishnan, Deema Alhazmi, Ahmad Aloufi, Fahad AlSumait

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medical Specialties, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Fahad AlSumait

Contributed equally to this work with: Basema Saddik, Nourah AlSwaidan, Ahmed AlAnazi, Rakhee K. Ramakrishnan, Deema Alhazmi, Ahmad Aloufi, Fahad AlSumait

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medical Specialties, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Elie Berbari

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, MN, United States of America

Rabih Halwani

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Sharjah Institute for Medical Research, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Department of Pediatrics, Prince Abdullah Ben Khaled Celiac Disease Research Chair, Faculty of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.