About the Authors

Anum Khan

Contributed equally to this work with: Anum Khan, Huma Ali

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Huma Ali

Contributed equally to this work with: Anum Khan, Huma Ali

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Ubaid Ur Rehman

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Ali Osman Belduz

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey

Amna Bibi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Mujib Abdulkadir Abdurahman

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey

Aamer Ali Shah

Roles Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Malik Badshah

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Fariha Hasan

Roles Resources, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Ali Osman Kilic

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey

Asad Ullah

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Sarwat Jahan

Roles Resources, Supervision, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Muhammad Maqsood Ur Rehman

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Rashid Mansoor

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation

Affiliation Department of Statistical Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Samiullah Khan

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

samikhan@qau.edu.pk

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.