About the Authors

Faezeh Hamidi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Faculty of Medical Sciences, Department of Laboratory Sciences and Microbiology, Tabriz Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran

Ali Rostami

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Research Institute, Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Centre, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran

Seyed Abdollah Hosseini

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

Affiliations Communicable Disease Institute, Toxoplasmosis Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Mazandaran, Iran, Department of Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Science, Sari, Iran

Rafael Calero-Bernal

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Veterinary Faculty, Animal Health Department, SALUVET, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Jafar Hajavi

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Microbiology, Infectious Diseases Research Center, Gonabad University of Medical Science, Gonabad, Iran

Reza Ahmadi

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Microbiology, Infectious Diseases Research Center, Gonabad University of Medical Science, Gonabad, Iran

Hossein Pazoki

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

hosseinpazoki11@gmail.com

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Microbiology, Infectious Diseases Research Center, Gonabad University of Medical Science, Gonabad, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.