About the Authors

Samreen Sarfaraz

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

docquratshaikh@gmail.com (QS); samreen2002@gmail.com (SS)

Affiliation Infectious Disease Department, The Indus Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

Quratulain Shaikh

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

docquratshaikh@gmail.com (QS); samreen2002@gmail.com (SS)

Affiliation Indus Hospital Research Centre, The Indus Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

Syed Ghazanfar Saleem

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Emergency Department, The Indus Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

Anum Rahim

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Indus Hospital Research Centre, The Indus Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

Fivzia Farooq Herekar

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Internal Medicine Department, The Indus Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

Samina Junejo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Paediatric infectious Diseases, The Indus Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

Aneela Hussain

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources

Affiliation Infectious Disease Department, The Indus Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.