About the Authors

Mahsa Alem

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

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran, Digestive Disease Research Center, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran

Seyyed Meysam Abtahi Froushani

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

meysamabtahi@hotmail.com, sm.abtahi@urmia.ac.ir

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran

Nasim Hajighahramani

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Pharmacy, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran

Saied Hosseini-Asl

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Digestive Disease Research Center, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran

Farhad Pourfarzi

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Digestive Disease Research Center, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran

Rasoul Nemati

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.