About the Authors

Zahra Zangeneh

Contributed equally to this work with: Zahra Zangeneh, Ahya Abdi-Ali, Ramin Abiri

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran

Ahya Abdi-Ali

Contributed equally to this work with: Zahra Zangeneh, Ahya Abdi-Ali, Ramin Abiri

Roles Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rabiri@kums.ac.ir (RA); abdialya@alzahra.ac.ir (AAA)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran, Research Center for Applied Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology (CAMB), Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran

Kianoosh Khamooshian

Roles Data curation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran

Amirhoushang Alvandi

Roles Methodology, Software

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran, Medical Technology Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran

Ramin Abiri

Contributed equally to this work with: Zahra Zangeneh, Ahya Abdi-Ali, Ramin Abiri

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rabiri@kums.ac.ir (RA); abdialya@alzahra.ac.ir (AAA)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran, Fertility and Infertility Research Center, Health, Health Technology Institute, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.