1. Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Técnica de Manabí, Portoviejo 130105, Ecuador
2. Instituto de Investigación, Universidad Técnica de Manabí, Portoviejo 130105, Ecuador
3. Division of Microbiology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India
4. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
5. Formerly Department of Microbiology, Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapuramu, 515003, India
6. Global Centre for Environmental Remediation (GCER), Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment (CRC CARE), Faculty of Science, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia