Salem, Dalia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4880-2240
Zaiton, Manar
El-Shenawy, Ahmed
Dahroug, Heba
El-Dein, Samah
Gamal, Doaa
Althoqapy, Azza Ali
Mohamed, Amr AW.
Shemis, Mohamed A.
Diab, Manal
Maklad, Soheir S.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Theodor Bilharz Research Institute
Article History
Received: 14 January 2026
Accepted: 18 August 2026
First Online: 4 September 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: The protocol of work was approved by institutional review board (FWA00010609), and the work has been carried out in accordance with the Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki) for Experiments in Humans. The Research Ethics Committee of Theodor Bilharz Research Institute waived informed consent as working was carried out on unidentified isolates. Patients data and hospital details were anonymized by using codes instead of identifying information.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.