About the Authors

Rayane Rafei

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Laboratoire Microbiologie Santé et Environnement (LMSE), Doctoral School for Science and Technology, Faculty of Public Health, Lebanese University, Tripoli, Lebanon

Marwan Osman

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

marwan.osman@yale.edu, mo368@cornell.edu (MO); mhamze@ul.edu.lb (MH)

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Bashir Amer Barake

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation LAU Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine, Byblos, Lebanon

Hassan Mallat

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratoire Microbiologie Santé et Environnement (LMSE), Doctoral School for Science and Technology, Faculty of Public Health, Lebanese University, Tripoli, Lebanon

Fouad Dabboussi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratoire Microbiologie Santé et Environnement (LMSE), Doctoral School for Science and Technology, Faculty of Public Health, Lebanese University, Tripoli, Lebanon

Monzer Hamze

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

marwan.osman@yale.edu, mo368@cornell.edu (MO); mhamze@ul.edu.lb (MH)

Affiliations Laboratoire Microbiologie Santé et Environnement (LMSE), Doctoral School for Science and Technology, Faculty of Public Health, Lebanese University, Tripoli, Lebanon, Clinical Laboratory, Nini Hospital, Microbiology Department, Tripoli, Lebanon

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.