Correction to: The Journal of Basic and Applied Zoology (2020) 81:2

https://doi.org/10.1186/s41936-019-0137-8

Following publication of the original article (Aeshra et al., 2020), we have been notified that the name of one author was spelled incorrectly as Mohamed Elmallah, when the correct spelling is Mohammed I.Y. Elmallah.

The original article has been corrected.