About the Authors

Mehmood Ahmad

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

mehmood.ahmad@iub.edu.pk (MA); adeel.sattar@uvas.edu.pk (AS)

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

Naeem Rasool

Roles Resources, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

Rana Muhammad Zahid Mushtaq

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Infection Medicine, College of Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Sammina Mahmood

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Botany, Division of Science and Technology, Bank Road Campus, University of Education, Lahore, Pakistan

Abdur Rauf Khalid

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Livestock and Poultry Production, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

Waqas Ahmad

Roles Data curation, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Pathology, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan, Livestock and Diary Development Department, Government of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Bilal Mahmood Beg

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

Mostafa A. Abdel Maksoud

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Botany and Microbiology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Abdul Aziz Alamri

Roles Resources, Visualization

Affiliation Biochemistry Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Adeel Sattar

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

mehmood.ahmad@iub.edu.pk (MA); adeel.sattar@uvas.edu.pk (AS)

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.