About the Authors

Noor Ulain

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Institute of Pathology and Diagnostic Medicine, Khyber Medical University, Peshawar, Pakistan

Asif Ali

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Histopathology, Institute of Pathology and Diagnostic Medicine, Khyber Medical University, Peshawar, Pakistan, School of Medicine, University of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Momin Khan

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Institute of Pathology and Diagnostic Medicine, Khyber Medical University, Peshawar, Pakistan

Zakir Ullah

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan

Lubna Shaheen

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan

Naveed Shareef

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan

Muhammad Yasir

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Histopathology, Institute of Pathology and Diagnostic Medicine, Khyber Medical University, Peshawar, Pakistan

Tehmina Mustafa

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

tehmina.mustafa@uib.no

Affiliations Centre for International Health, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Thoracic Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.