About the Authors
- Saeid Latifi-Navid
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Affiliations Department of Bacteriology and Virology, National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Tehran, Iran, Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Seyed Ali Ghorashi
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Contributed equally to this work with: Seyed Ali Ghorashi, Reza Malekzadeh, Daniel Falush
Affiliation Department of Bacteriology and Virology, National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Tehran, Iran
- Farideh Siavoshi
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Biology, College of Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
- Bodo Linz
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Sadegh Massarrat
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Affiliation Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Tanya Khegay
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Affiliation Uzbek Academy of Sciences, Institute of Immunology, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
- Ali-Hatef Salmanian
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Affiliation Department of Plant Molecular Biology, National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Tehran, Iran
- Ali Akbar Shayesteh
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahwaz, Iran
- Mohsen Masoodi
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Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease Research Center (GILDRC), Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Tropical and Infectious Disease Research Center, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar-Abbas, Iran
- Koroush Ghanadi
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Affiliation Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran
- Azita Ganji
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Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, Imam Reza Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (MUMS), Mashhad, Iran
- Sebastian Suerbaum
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Affiliation Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Krankenhaushygiene, Hannover, Germany
- Mark Achtman
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
- Reza Malekzadeh
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Contributed equally to this work with: Seyed Ali Ghorashi, Reza Malekzadeh, Daniel Falush
Affiliation Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Daniel Falush
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Contributed equally to this work with: Seyed Ali Ghorashi, Reza Malekzadeh, Daniel Falush
* E-mail: D.Falush@ucc.ie
Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SAG FS SM MA RM DF. Performed the experiments: SLN BL TK AHS AAS MM KG AG. Analyzed the data: SLN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS. Wrote the paper: SLN DF.