About the Authors

Jila Yavarian

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Virology Department, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Ahmad Nejati

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Virology Department, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Vahid Salimi

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Virology Department, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Nazanin Zahra Shafiei Jandaghi

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Virology Department, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Kaveh Sadeghi

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Virology Department, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Adel Abedi

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Mathematics Department, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

Ali Sharifi Zarchi

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Mohammad Mehdi Gouya

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Iranian Center for Communicable Disease Control, Tehran, Iran

Talat Mokhtari-Azad

Roles Supervision

mokhtari@tums.ac.ir

Affiliation Virology Department, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.