About the Authors

Behrouz Taheri

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, School of Paramedicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran

Mohsen Mohammadi

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

mmohamadi1986@yahoo.com

Affiliation The Persian Gulf Marine Biotechnology Research Center, the Persian Gulf Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran

Iraj Nabipour

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

Affiliation The Persian Gulf Marine Biotechnology Research Center, the Persian Gulf Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran

Niloofar Momenzadeh

Roles Methodology

Affiliation The Persian Gulf Marine Biotechnology Research Center, the Persian Gulf Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran

Mona Roozbehani

Roles Validation

Affiliation PhD Students of Medical Parasitology School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.