Amira Mohamed Taha a, b, Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales c, d, Ranjit Sah e, f, g 
a Faculty of Medicine, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt
b Medical Research Group of Egypt (MRGE), Negida Academy, Arlington, MA, USA
c Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru
d Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon
e Department of Microbiology, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu 44600, Nepal
f Department of Microbiology, Dr DY Patil Medical College, Hospital and Research Centre, Dr DY Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune, India
g Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Wardha, India