About the Authors

Srilekha Sridhara

Roles Writing – original draft

‡ SS and ABG are contributed equally to this work as first author.

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, College of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Ahmet B. Gungor

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

‡ SS and ABG are contributed equally to this work as first author.

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, The Banner University Medical Center, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Halil K. Erol

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, College of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Mohanad Al-Obaidi

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, College of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Tirdad T. Zangeneh

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, College of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Edward J. Bedrick

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Venkatesh K. Ariyamuthu

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, College of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Aneesha Shetty

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, College of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Abd A. Qannus

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, College of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Katherine Mendoza

Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, College of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Sangeetha Murugapandian

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, College of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Gaurav Gupta

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Bekir Tanriover

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

btanriover@arizona.edu

Affiliation Division of Nephrology, College of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declared no conflict of interest related to this research.