About the Authors

Abdollah Rafiei

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Infectious and Tropical Diseases Research Center, Health Research Institute, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Khuzestan, Iran, Department of Parasitology, School of Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Khuzestan, Iran

Raheleh Baghlaninezhad

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations Infectious and Tropical Diseases Research Center, Health Research Institute, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Khuzestan, Iran, Department of Parasitology, School of Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Khuzestan, Iran

Pamela C. Köster

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Parasitology Reference and Research Laboratory, National Centre for Microbiology, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain

Begoña Bailo

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Parasitology Reference and Research Laboratory, National Centre for Microbiology, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain

Marta Hernández de Mingo

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Parasitology Reference and Research Laboratory, National Centre for Microbiology, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain

David Carmena

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

beiromvand-m@ajums.ac.ir (MB); dacarmena@isciii.es (DC)

Affiliation Parasitology Reference and Research Laboratory, National Centre for Microbiology, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain

Esmat Panabad

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, School of Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Khuzestan, Iran

Molouk Beiromvand

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

beiromvand-m@ajums.ac.ir (MB); dacarmena@isciii.es (DC)

Affiliations Infectious and Tropical Diseases Research Center, Health Research Institute, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Khuzestan, Iran, Department of Parasitology, School of Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Khuzestan, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.