About the Authors

Zahra Abdossamadi

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Immunotherapy and Leishmania Vaccine Research, Pasteur institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Negar Seyed

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Immunotherapy and Leishmania Vaccine Research, Pasteur institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Farnaz Zahedifard

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Immunotherapy and Leishmania Vaccine Research, Pasteur institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Tahereh Taheri

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Immunotherapy and Leishmania Vaccine Research, Pasteur institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Yasaman Taslimi

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Immunotherapy and Leishmania Vaccine Research, Pasteur institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Hossein Montakhab-Yeganeh

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Immunotherapy and Leishmania Vaccine Research, Pasteur institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Alireza Badirzadeh

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Immunotherapy and Leishmania Vaccine Research, Pasteur institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Mohammad Vasei

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Cell-Based Therapies Research Center, Digestive Disease Research Institute and Department of Pathology, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran

Safoora Gharibzadeh

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Sima Rafati

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

s_rafati@yahoo.com, sima-rafatisy@pasteur.ac.ir

Affiliation Department of Immunotherapy and Leishmania Vaccine Research, Pasteur institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.