About the Authors

Alaa H. Sewid

Contributed equally to this work with: Alaa H. Sewid, Stephen A. Kania

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

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt, Department of Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Stephen A. Kania

Contributed equally to this work with: Alaa H. Sewid, Stephen A. Kania

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

skania@utk.edu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.