About the Authors

Sahar Abed

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

Affiliations Department of Microbial Biotechnology, Faculty of Basic Sciences and Advanced Technologies in Biology, University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran, Department of Bacteriology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Masoumeh Beig

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Seyed Mahmoud Barzi

Roles Methodology

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

Morvarid Shafiei

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

dr.m.shafiei@pasteur.ac.ir

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

Abdolrazagh Hashemi Shahraki

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep, College of Medicine-Jacksonville, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Sara Sadeghi

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America

Aria Sohrabi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.