Abid Hussain: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: ResourcesRole: Writing – original draft
Asmatullah Kakar: Role: ConceptualizationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole:
Writing – review & editing
Mahrukh Naseem: Role: ConceptualizationRole: InvestigationRole: Supervision
Kashif Kamran: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: ValidationRole: Writing
– original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Zafar Ullah: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: ValidationRole: Writing
– original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Shehla Shehla: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: ValidationRole:
Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Muhammad Kashif Obaid:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7989-1461
Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: ValidationRole:
Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Nazeer Ahmed: Role: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: Resources
Qaiser Khan: Role: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: Resources
Iram Liaqat:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4638-8253
Role: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: Resources
Naeem Iqbal: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS One
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Title:
PLOS ONE
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Public Library of Science
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)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
10
April
2024
Publication date Collection: 2024
Volume: 19
Issue: 4
Electronic Location Identifier: e0300903
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Balochistan, Balochistan,
Pakistan
[2
]
Department of Zoology, University of Loralai, Balochistan, Pakistan
[3
]
Department of Zoology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
[4
]
State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Key Laboratory of
Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute,
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu, China
[5
]
Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences,
Balochistan, Pakistan
[6
]
Department of Zoology, Government College University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agriculture, PAKISTAN
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0300903
PMC ID: 11006193
PubMed ID: 38598453
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