About the Authors

Mohammed S. Almuhayawi

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Yousef Abdulatif Jameel Scientific Chair of Prophetic Medicine Application, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Mohammed H. Alruhaili

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Special Infectious Agents Unit, King Fahad Medical Research Center, King AbdulAziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Mohamed K. Y. Soliman

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt

Muyassar K. Tarabulsi

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Ruba A. Ashy

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Amna A. Saddiq

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Samy Selim

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

salemsalahsalem@azhar.edu.eg (SSS); sabdulsalam@ju.edu.sa (SS)

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

Yasir Alruwaili

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Jouf University, Sakaka, Saudi Arabia, Sustainable Development Research and Innovation Center, Deanship of Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, Jouf University, Sakaka, Saudi Arabia

Salem S. Salem

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

salemsalahsalem@azhar.edu.eg (SSS); sabdulsalam@ju.edu.sa (SS)

Affiliation Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.