About the Authors
- Mohamed El-Shinawi
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Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
- Hossam Taha Mohamed
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hossam Taha Mohamed, Eslam A. El-Ghonaimy
Affiliation Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
- Eslam A. El-Ghonaimy
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Contributed equally to this work with: Hossam Taha Mohamed, Eslam A. El-Ghonaimy
Affiliation Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
- Marwa Tantawy
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Affiliation Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
- Amal Younis
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Affiliation Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
- Robert J. Schneider
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America
- Mona Mostafa Mohamed
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* E-mail: mmostafa@sci.cu.edu.eg
Affiliation Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MMM RJS MES. Performed the experiments: HTM EAG MT AY. Analyzed the data: MMM MES RJS AY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MMM MES RJS. Wrote the paper: MMM MES RJS.