About the Authors

Sana Eybpoosh

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging infectious diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Mehdi Fazlalipour

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Arboviruses and Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (National Reference Laboratory), Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Vahid Baniasadi

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Arboviruses and Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (National Reference Laboratory), Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Mohammad Hassan Pouriayevali

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Arboviruses and Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (National Reference Laboratory), Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Farzin Sadeghi

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cellular and Molecular biology research centre, health research institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran

Abbas Ahmadi Vasmehjani

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Virology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Mohammad Hadi Karbalaie Niya

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of immunology and infectious diseases, Iran university of medical sciences, Tehran, Iran

Roger Hewson

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Virology & Pathogenesis, National Infection Service, Public Health England, United Kingdom

Mostafa Salehi-Vaziri

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mostafavaziri1985@gmail.com, m.salehi@pasteur.ac.ir

Affiliations Department of Arboviruses and Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (National Reference Laboratory), Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging infectious diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.