About the Authors

Mohammad Ebrahimipour

Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammad Ebrahimipour, Mehdi Borhani

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Research Center for Hydatid Disease in Iran, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Afzalipour School of Medicine, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Mehdi Borhani

Contributed equally to this work with: Mohammad Ebrahimipour, Mehdi Borhani

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pathogenesis, Prevention and Treatment of High Incidence Diseases in Central Asia, Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, China

Omid Dayani

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran

Majid Fasihi Harandi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – original draft

majid.fasihi@gmail.com

Affiliation Research Center for Hydatid Disease in Iran, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Afzalipour School of Medicine, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.