About the Authors

Delaram Doroud

Affiliations Molecular Immunology and Vaccine Research Laboratory, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran, Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Farnaz Zahedifard

Affiliation Molecular Immunology and Vaccine Research Laboratory, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Alireza Vatanara

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Yasaman Taslimi

Affiliation Molecular Immunology and Vaccine Research Laboratory, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Rouholah Vahabpour

Affiliation Hepatitis and AIDS Department, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Fatemeh Torkashvand

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Center, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Behrooz Vaziri

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Center, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Abdolhossein Rouholamini Najafabadi

s_rafati@yahoo.com (SR); arnajafabadi@gmail.com (ARN)

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Sima Rafati

s_rafati@yahoo.com (SR); arnajafabadi@gmail.com (ARN)

Affiliation Molecular Immunology and Vaccine Research Laboratory, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SR ARN AV. Performed the experiments: DD FZ YT RV FT. Analyzed the data: DD BV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DD FZ AV. Wrote the paper: DD SR ARN.