About the Authors

Sahar Abed

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

‡ These authors share the first authorship of this work.

Affiliations Department of Microbial Biotechnology, Faculty of Basic Sciences and Advanced Technologies in Biology, University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran, Department of Bacteriology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Masoumeh Beig

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

‡ These authors share the first authorship of this work.

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

Sepideh Soltani

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

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

Mohadeseh Pahlevani

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Microbial Biotechnology, Faculty of Basic Sciences and Advanced Technologies in Biology, University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran

Peter Speck

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia

Morvarid Shafiei

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

dr.m.shafiei@pasteur.ac.ir

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

Abdolrazagh Hashemi Shahraki

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Laboratory Services, Tennessee Department of Health, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Abozar Ghorbani

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Nuclear Agriculture Research School, Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute (NSTRI), Karaj, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.