About the Authors

Abdulah J. Alqahtani

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

abjaalqahtani@kku.edu.sa

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Clinical Parasitology, College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia

Yahya Shabi

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Clinical Parasitology, College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia

Ghaday Hadi

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland

Abdullah Algarni

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Aseer Central Hospital, Abha, Saudi Arabia

Anandhalakshmi Subramanian

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Clinical Parasitology, College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia

Ihab M. Abdelrahim

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Clinical Parasitology, College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia

Ali Al bshabshe

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia

Tarik Alazraqi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Aseer Central Hospital, Abha, Saudi Arabia

Safia Abdullah Mohammed

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Aseer Central Hospital, Abha, Saudi Arabia

Sara Habbash

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Aseer Central Hospital, Abha, Saudi Arabia

Mona M. Alfaki

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Clinical Parasitology, College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia

Abdulah O. S. Bawazeer

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Aseer Central Hospital, Abha, Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.