About the Authors

Shokrollah Elahi

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

elahi@ualberta.ca

Affiliations School of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, Department of Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Shima Shahbaz

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation School of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Stan Houston

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.