About the Authors

Azam Malekian

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Naseh Maleki-Ravasan

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

naseh_maleki@yahoo.com (NMR); parpparvizi@yahoo.com (PP)

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

Somayeh Mohammadi

Roles Investigation

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

Ali Khamesipour

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Research and Training in Skin Diseases and Leprosy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Parviz Parvizi

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

naseh_maleki@yahoo.com (NMR); parpparvizi@yahoo.com (PP)

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

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.