About the Authors

Ashraf Mohabbati Mobarez

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Fahimeh Bagheri Amiri

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, Urology and Nephrology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Saber Esmaeili

dr.saberesmaeili@gmail.com, Esmaeilisaber@modares.ac.ir

Affiliations Department of Bacteriology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran, National Reference Laboratory of Plague, Tularemia and Q Fever, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Akanlu, Kabudar-Ahang, Hamadan, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SE AMM. Data curation: SE AMM FBA. Formal analysis: FBA. Funding acquisition: SE. Investigation: SE AMM FBA. Methodology: SE AMM FBA. Project administration: SE AMM. Resources: SE AMM FBA. Software: SE FBA. Supervision: SE AMM. Validation: SE FBA. Visualization: SE AMM FBA. Writing – original draft: SE. Writing – review & editing: SE AMM FBA.