About the Authors

Zahra Atef

Contributed equally to this work with: Zahra Atef, Fatemeh Livani

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Research Center, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran

Fatemeh Livani

Contributed equally to this work with: Zahra Atef, Fatemeh Livani

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis

Affiliation Clinical Research Development Unit (CRDU), Sayad Shirazi Hospital, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran

Faramarz Koohsar

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Laboratory Sciences Research Center, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran

Roghiyeh Faridnia

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Laboratory Sciences Research Center, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran

Ganesh Yadagiri

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Biosciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

Hamed Kalani

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

hamed.kalani@goums.ac.ir

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Research Center, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.