About the Authors

ElaheSadat Hosseini

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Masoumeh Tavakoli-Yaraki

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Ahmad Reza Meamar

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Zeynab Ajam

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Maryam Alipour

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Ruchika Bagga

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Elham Razmjou

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

razmjou.e@iums.ac.ir (ER); r.rafiei.sd@gmail.com (RR-S)

Affiliation Department of Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Raheleh Rafiei-Sefiddashti

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

razmjou.e@iums.ac.ir (ER); r.rafiei.sd@gmail.com (RR-S)

Affiliation Department of Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

All authors declare no competing interests.