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The research protocol involving archived clinical microbial isolates obtained from previously collected human clinical specimens, including endoscopy-guided sinus aspirates for\n                      A. fumigatus\n                      and oropharyngeal swabs for\n                      C. albicans\n                      , was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of the University of Albaydha (Reference No. IRB\/11\/2024). All the isolates were provided in a fully coded and anonymised form, and no personal identifiers were accessible to the investigators. The IRB granted a waiver of informed consent and a waiver of additional prospective ethical review because the study involved retrospective analysis of irreversibly de-identified samples and posed no more than minimal risk to human subjects.Regarding plant sampling,\n                      P. jaubertii\n                      leaves were collected from privately owned land in Rada'a, Al-Bayda Governorate, Yemen. 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