About the Authors

Arash Golalipour

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

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

Ali Mohammadi

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

mohammad@shirazu.ac.ir (AM); vahid.erfani@goums.ac.ir (VE-M)

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

Saeid Hosseinzadeh

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Food Hygiene and Public Health, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

Alireza Soltani

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Golestan Rheumatology Research Center, Golestan University of Medical Science, Gorgan, Iran

Vahid Erfani-Moghadam

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

mohammad@shirazu.ac.ir (AM); vahid.erfani@goums.ac.ir (VE-M)

Affiliations Medical Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran, Department of Medical Biotechnology, School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.