About the Authors

Syed Ahmad

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft

‡ Equal first authors.

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Sara Aslam

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Sara.aslam702@gmail.com, Sara.aslam@superior.edu.pk (SA); amara.mmg@pu.edu.pk (AK)

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering Technology, The Superior University, Lahore, Pakistan

Ammara Khalid

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Sara.aslam702@gmail.com, Sara.aslam@superior.edu.pk (SA); amara.mmg@pu.edu.pk (AK)

‡ Equal first authors.

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.