About the Authors

Farnaz Zahedifard

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

Affiliations Immunotherapy and Leishmania Vaccine Research Department, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran, Leishmania Research Lab, Institut Pasteur Korea, Seongnam-si, Republic of Korea

Hyeryon Lee

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Leishmania Research Lab, Institut Pasteur Korea, Seongnam-si, Republic of Korea

Joo Hwan No

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Leishmania Research Lab, Institut Pasteur Korea, Seongnam-si, Republic of Korea

Mona Salimi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Physiology and Pharmacology Department, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Negar Seyed

Roles Methodology, Software, Validation

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

Ahmad Asoodeh

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

Sima Rafati

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

s_rafati@yahoo.com

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.