About the Authors

Hassan Ayaz

Contributed equally to this work with: Hassan Ayaz, Nouman Aslam

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Lab Technology, The University of Haripur (UOH), Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Nouman Aslam

Contributed equally to this work with: Hassan Ayaz, Nouman Aslam

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Lab Technology, The University of Haripur (UOH), Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Faryal Mehwish Awan

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

faryal.mehwish@uoh.edu.pk, faryal_mehwish@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Medical Lab Technology, The University of Haripur (UOH), Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Rabea Basri

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medical Lab Technology, The University of Haripur (UOH), Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Bisma Rauff

Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore, Narowal, Pakistan

Badr Alzahrani

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Jouf University, Sakaka, Saudi Arabia

Muhammad Arif

Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medical Lab Technology, The University of Haripur (UOH), Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Aqsa Ikram

Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB), The University of Lahore (UOL), Lahore, Pakistan

Ayesha Obaid

Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medical Lab Technology, The University of Haripur (UOH), Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Anam Naz

Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB), The University of Lahore (UOL), Lahore, Pakistan

Sadiq Noor Khan

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Lab Technology, The University of Haripur (UOH), Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Burton B. Yang

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Azhar Nazir

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medical Lab Technology, The University of Haripur (UOH), Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.