About the Authors

Devapriya Finney

Contributed equally to this work with: Devapriya Finney, Nazeerullah Rahamathullah

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

devapriya@gmu.ac.ae (DP); dr.nazeer@gmu.ac.ae (NR)

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates

Ahmed Luay Osman Hashim

Roles Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates

Sunil Kumar Bylappa

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Thumbay Laboratories, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates

Ameena Ebrahim Mugar

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Thumbay Laboratories, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates

Manivannan Nandhagopal

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Saveetha Medical College and Hospital, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Saveetha University, India

Mohammed Abdulrazzaq Jabbar

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates

Nazeerullah Rahamathullah

Contributed equally to this work with: Devapriya Finney, Nazeerullah Rahamathullah

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

devapriya@gmu.ac.ae (DP); dr.nazeer@gmu.ac.ae (NR)

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates, Thumbay Research Institute for Precision Medicine, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.