About the Authors

Hamed Behniafar

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Parasitology, Sarab Faculty of Medical Sciences, Sarab, East Azerbaijan, Iran

Adel Spotin

Roles Software

Affiliation Department of Parasitology and Mycology, Faculty of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

Ali Bahadori

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Sarab Faculty of Medical Sciences, Sarab, East Azerbaijan, Iran

Soghra Valizadeh

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Food Hygiene and Aquatic, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

Leili Valizadeh

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran

Hosein Pazoki

Roles Investigation, Software

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Research Center, Gonabad University of Medical Science, Gonabad, Iran

Fatemeh Mahdavi

Contributed equally to this work with: Fatemeh Mahdavi, Maryam Niyyati

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization

fmahdaviabhari@gmail.com (FM), maryamniyati@yahoo.com (MN)

Affiliation Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran

Maryam Niyyati

Contributed equally to this work with: Fatemeh Mahdavi, Maryam Niyyati

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

fmahdaviabhari@gmail.com (FM), maryamniyati@yahoo.com (MN)

Affiliation Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors declare no competing interests.