Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41162-9, published online 14 March 2019

In the original version of this Article, there were errors in Affiliations of authors Hussein A. Almehdar and Asif A. Jiman-Fatani which were incorrectly listed as ‘Department of Microbiology and Medical Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia’ and ‘Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia’ respectively.

The correct affiliations are listed below.

Affiliation of Hussein A. Almehdar:

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Affiliation of Asif A. Jiman-Fatani:

Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

These errors have now been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.

In the original version of this Article, the author Asif A. Jiman-Fatani was incorrectly indexed. This error has now been corrected.