About the Authors

Mehdi Zarei

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

zarei@scu.ac.ir (MZ); amin.yousefvand@helsinki.fi (AY)

Affiliation Department of Food Hygiene, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

Sahar Elmi Anvari

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Food Hygiene, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

Siavash Maktabi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Food Hygiene, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

Per Erik Joakim Saris

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Amin Yousefvand

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

zarei@scu.ac.ir (MZ); amin.yousefvand@helsinki.fi (AY)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest regarding the publication of this article.