About the Authors

Mehdi Bamorovat

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

Affiliation Leishmaniasis Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Iraj Sharifi

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

iraj.sharifi@yahoo.com

Affiliation Leishmaniasis Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Mohammad Reza Aflatoonian

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Research Center of Tropical and Infectious Diseases, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Hamid Sharifi

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation

Affiliation HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Ali Karamoozian

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Research Center for Modeling in Health, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Fatemeh Sharifi

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Pharmaceutics Research Center, Institute of Neuropharmacology, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Ahmad Khosravi

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Leishmaniasis Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Saeid Hassanzadeh

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.