About the Authors

Negin Faraji

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, ShK.C., Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran

Leila Rouhi

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, ShK.C., Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran

Azam Bolhassani

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

zam.bolhassani@yahoo.com, A_bolhasani@pasteur.ac.ir

Affiliation Department of Hepatitis, AIDS and Blood-borne Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Behnam Hasannejad-asl

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Committee, Department of Medical Biotechnology, School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Kazem Baesi

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Hepatitis, AIDS and Blood-borne Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Ladan Abbasian

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Iranian Research Center for HIV/AIDS, Iranian Institute for Reduction of High-risk Behaviors, Department of Infectious Diseases, Imam khomeini Hospital Complex, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.