About the Authors

Samy Selim

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

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

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

Mohammed S. Almuhayawi

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

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Mohammed H. Alruhaili

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Validation, 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

Hattan S. Gattan

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

Affiliations Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Special Infectious Agents Unit, King Fahad Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Amna A. Saddiq

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

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

Nashwa Hagagy

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biology, College of Science & Arts at Khulis, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt

Ashwag Jaman Alzahrani

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

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

Soad K. Al Jaouni

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

Affiliation Department of Hematology/Oncology, Scientific Chair of Prophetic Medicine Application, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University and Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Salem S. Salem

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

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

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.