About the Authors

Rima Fanaei Pirlar

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Mohammad Emaneini

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Reza Beigverdi

Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Maryam Banar

Roles Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Willem B. van Leeuwen

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Leiden Center for Applied Bioscience, University of Applied Sciences Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands

Fereshteh Jabalameli

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

jabalamf@tums.ac.ir

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.