About the Authors

Sepideh Fereshteh

Contributed equally to this work with: Sepideh Fereshteh, Fatemeh Haririzadeh Jouriani

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Fatemeh Haririzadeh Jouriani

Contributed equally to this work with: Sepideh Fereshteh, Fatemeh Haririzadeh Jouriani

Roles Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Narjes Noori Goodarzi

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

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

Mahdi Torkamaneh

Roles Methodology, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Behnoush Khasheii

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran

Farzad Badmasti

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

fbadmasti2008@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.