Khaliq, Abdul
Khan, Saadullah
Muhammad, Noor
Hussain, Mubbashir
Naveed, Hassan
Basit, Abdul
Alzahrani, Khalid J.
Alsharif, Khalaf F.
Alzahrani, Fuad M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Taif University (TU-DSPP-2024-26)
Article History
Received: 10 November 2025
Accepted: 15 December 2025
First Online: 8 January 2026
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the Ethical and Research Committee of Kohat University of Science and Technology (KUST), Kohat, Pakistan (Approval No. KUST/Ethical Committee/1975, dated 02 December 2024). All procedures involving human participants were performed in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional committee and with the Declaration of Helsinki. Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants (or their legal guardians, where applicable) prior to sample collection.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.