About the Authors

Bader S. Alotaibi

Contributed equally to this work with: Bader S. Alotaibi, Fatiha Khan, Muhammad Bilal Iqbal Rehmani

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Al- Quwayiyah, Shaqra University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Fatiha Khan

Contributed equally to this work with: Bader S. Alotaibi, Fatiha Khan, Muhammad Bilal Iqbal Rehmani

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

Muhammad Bilal Iqbal Rehmani

Contributed equally to this work with: Bader S. Alotaibi, Fatiha Khan, Muhammad Bilal Iqbal Rehmani

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

Fizza Arshad

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

Muhammad Umer Khan

Roles Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

Umar Nishan

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat, Pakistan

Abid Ali

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, Pakistan

Khaled Fahmi Fawy

Roles Resources, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Research Center for Advanced Materials Science (RCAMS), King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia

Sarah A. Altwaim

Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Saeed M. N. Alasmari

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Arts, Najran University, Najran, Saudi Arabia

Hanna Dib

Roles Conceptualization, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

hanna.dib@aum.edu.kw (HD); mohib@bzu.edu.pk, mohibusb@gmail.com (MS)

Affiliation College of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East, Kuwait

Mohibullah Shah

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

hanna.dib@aum.edu.kw (HD); mohib@bzu.edu.pk, mohibusb@gmail.com (MS)

Affiliations Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Al- Quwayiyah, Shaqra University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Department of Animal Science, Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.