About the Authors

Elaheh Davarpanah

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran, Department of Immunotherapy and Leishmania Vaccine Research, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Negar Seyed

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

Fariborz Bahrami

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Sima Rafati

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

Reza Safaralizadeh

Roles Funding acquisition

safaralizadeh@tabrizu.ac.ir (RS); Tahereh_t@yahoo.com (TT)

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

Tahereh Taheri

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

safaralizadeh@tabrizu.ac.ir (RS); Tahereh_t@yahoo.com (TT)

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.