About the Authors

Sana Eybpoosh

Contributed equally to this work with: Sana Eybpoosh, Saeid Mostaan

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

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Saeid Mostaan

Contributed equally to this work with: Sana Eybpoosh, Saeid Mostaan

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Mohammad Mehdi Gouya

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliation Centre for Communicable Diseases Control, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran

Hossein Masoumi-Asl

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Centre for Communicable Diseases Control, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran

Parviz Owlia

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular Microbiology Research Center, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran

Babak Eshrati

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Center for Preventive Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Mohammad Reza Montazer Razavi Khorasan

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation

Affiliation Centre for Communicable Diseases Control, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran

Saeid Bouzari

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision

bouzari@pasteur.ac.ir

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.