About the Authors

Jim Abi Frem

Contributed equally to this work with: Jim Abi Frem, George Doumat

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

George Doumat

Contributed equally to this work with: Jim Abi Frem, George Doumat

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Jamil Kazma

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Amal Gharamti

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Souha S. Kanj

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Antoine G. Abou Fayad

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Experimental Pathology, Immunology, and Microbiology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, WHO Collaborating Center for Reference and Research on Bacterial Pathogens, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Ghassan M. Matar

Roles Methodology, Visualization

Affiliations Department of Experimental Pathology, Immunology, and Microbiology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, WHO Collaborating Center for Reference and Research on Bacterial Pathogens, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Zeina A. Kanafani

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

zk10@aub.edu.lb

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.