About the Authors

Maryam Banar

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Mohammad Emaneini

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Mhboubeh Satarzadeh

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Shahid Motahari Burns Hospital, Tehran, Iran

Nafiseh Abdellahi

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Reza Beigverdi

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Willem B. van Leeuwen

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. Erasmus Medical Center, University of Applied Sciences, Leiden, Netherlands

Fereshteh Jabalameli

jabalamf@tums.ac.ir

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ME FJ. Data curation: MB ME FJ. Formal analysis: MB ME FJ. Funding acquisition: ME FJ. Investigation: MB MS NA RB. Methodology: MB ME MS NA RB FJ. Project administration: ME FJ. Resources: ME FJ. Software: MB ME. Supervision: ME FJ. Validation: MB ME FJ. Visualization: MB ME WBL FJ. Writing – original draft: MB FJ. Writing – review & editing: ME WBL.