aDepartment of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Al-Muthanna University

bDepartment of Biology, College of Science, Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq.

Correspondence to Shaimaa Majed Sadiq Zainulabdeen, Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Al-Muthanna University, Iraq. E-mail: [email protected]

Received 11 September, 2021

Revised 22 December, 2022

Accepted 27 December, 2022