About the Authors

Ravinder Polapally

Contributed equally to this work with: Ravinder Polapally, Manasa Mansani, Karthik Rajkumar, Sandeepta Burgula, Bee Hameeda

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University College of Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

Manasa Mansani

Contributed equally to this work with: Ravinder Polapally, Manasa Mansani, Karthik Rajkumar, Sandeepta Burgula, Bee Hameeda

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University College of Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

Karthik Rajkumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Ravinder Polapally, Manasa Mansani, Karthik Rajkumar, Sandeepta Burgula, Bee Hameeda

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University College of Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

Sandeepta Burgula

Contributed equally to this work with: Ravinder Polapally, Manasa Mansani, Karthik Rajkumar, Sandeepta Burgula, Bee Hameeda

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University College of Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

Bee Hameeda

Contributed equally to this work with: Ravinder Polapally, Manasa Mansani, Karthik Rajkumar, Sandeepta Burgula, Bee Hameeda

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

drhami2009@gmail.com (BH); sayyedrz@gmail.com (RZS)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University College of Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

Alaa Alhazmi

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

‡ AA, FB, AHA, SH, HAEE and RZS also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Medical Laboratory Technology Department, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia, SMIRES for Consultation in Specialized Medical Laboratories, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia

Farkad Bantun

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ AA, FB, AHA, SH, HAEE and RZS also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University, Mecca, Saudi Arabia

Atiah H. Almalki

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

‡ AA, FB, AHA, SH, HAEE and RZS also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia, Addiction and Neuroscience Research Unit, College of Pharmacy, Taif University, Al-Hawiah, Taif, Saudi Arabia

Shafiul Haque

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ AA, FB, AHA, SH, HAEE and RZS also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Research and Scientific Studies Unit, College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia, Bursa Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine, Görükle Campus, Nilüfer, Bursa, Turkey

Hesham Ali El Enshasy

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

‡ AA, FB, AHA, SH, HAEE and RZS also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Institute of Bioproduct Development (IBD), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Skudai, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia, School of Chemical and Energy Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Skudai, Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia, City of Scientific Research and Technology Applications (SRTA), New Burg Al Arab, Alexandria, Egypt

R. Z. Sayyed

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

drhami2009@gmail.com (BH); sayyedrz@gmail.com (RZS)

‡ AA, FB, AHA, SH, HAEE and RZS also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, PSGVP Mandal’s Arts, Science, and Commerce College, Shahada, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.