About the Authors

Ramtin Hadighi

Affiliation School of Public Health and Institute of Public Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Mehdi Mohebali

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Marc.Ouellette@crchul.ulaval.ca (MO), E-mail: mmohebali@hotmail.com (MM)

Affiliation School of Public Health and Institute of Public Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Patrick Boucher

Affiliation Centre de Recherche en Infectiologie and Département de Biologie Médicale, Université Laval, Québec, Canada

Homa Hajjaran

Affiliation School of Public Health and Institute of Public Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Ali Khamesipour

Affiliation Center for Research and Training in Skin Diseases and Leprosy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Marc Ouellette

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Marc.Ouellette@crchul.ulaval.ca (MO), E-mail: mmohebali@hotmail.com (MM)

Affiliation Centre de Recherche en Infectiologie and Département de Biologie Médicale, Université Laval, Québec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

RH, PB, and HH performed the experiments and analyzed the data. RH, MM, AK, and MO designed the experiment, analyzed the data, and contributed to writing the paper.