About the Authors

Wajdi Ayadi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft

wajdi.ayadi.cbs@gmail.com

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biotechnology of Eukaryotes, Center of Biotechnology of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

Fahmi Smaoui

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

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Research Laboratory for Microorganisms and Human Disease LR03SP03, Habib Bourguiba University-Hospital, Sfax, Tunisia

Saba Gargouri

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliations Laboratory of Microbiology, Research Laboratory for Microorganisms and Human Disease LR03SP03, Habib Bourguiba University-Hospital, Sfax, Tunisia, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

Sana Ferjani

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software

Affiliations Charles Nicolle Hospital, Laboratory of Microbiology, Tunis, Tunisia, University of Tunis El Manar, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

Zaineb Hamzaoui

Roles Data curation, Software

Affiliation University of Tunis El Manar, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

Awatef Taktak

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Biotechnology of Eukaryotes, Center of Biotechnology of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia, Laboratory of Microbiology, Research Laboratory for Microorganisms and Human Disease LR03SP03, Habib Bourguiba University-Hospital, Sfax, Tunisia

Amel Chtourou

Roles Supervision, Validation

Affiliations Laboratory of Microbiology, Research Laboratory for Microorganisms and Human Disease LR03SP03, Habib Bourguiba University-Hospital, Sfax, Tunisia, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

Houda Skouri-Gargouri

Roles Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biotechnology of Eukaryotes, Center of Biotechnology of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

Azza Hadj Sassi

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biotechnology of Eukaryotes, Center of Biotechnology of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

Mouna Ben Sassi

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations National Center Chalbi belkahia of Pharmacovigilance of Tunis, Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacology, Tunis, Tunisia, University of Tunis El Manar, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

Sameh Trabelsi

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliations National Center Chalbi belkahia of Pharmacovigilance of Tunis, Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacology, Tunis, Tunisia, University of Tunis El Manar, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

Ali Gargouri

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biotechnology of Eukaryotes, Center of Biotechnology of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

Ilhem Boutiba-Ben Boubaker

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Charles Nicolle Hospital, Laboratory of Microbiology, Tunis, Tunisia, University of Tunis El Manar, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

Héla Karray-Hakim

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratory of Microbiology, Research Laboratory for Microorganisms and Human Disease LR03SP03, Habib Bourguiba University-Hospital, Sfax, Tunisia, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

Raja Mokdad-Gargouri

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biotechnology of Eukaryotes, Center of Biotechnology of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

Lamia Feki-Berrajah

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratory of Microbiology, Research Laboratory for Microorganisms and Human Disease LR03SP03, Habib Bourguiba University-Hospital, Sfax, Tunisia, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.