About the Authors

Yaghoob Hamedi

Affiliation Infectious and Tropical Diseases Research Center, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan Province, Iran

Khojasteh Sharifi-Sarasiabi

sharifisarasiabi@gmail.com (KSS); Sarah.Auburn@menzies.edu.au (SA)

Affiliation Infectious and Tropical Diseases Research Center, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan Province, Iran

Farzaneh Dehghan

Affiliation Molecular Medicine Research Center, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan Province, Iran

Reza Safari

Affiliation Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan Province, Iran

Sheren To

Affiliation Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research and Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Irene Handayuni

Affiliation Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research and Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Hidayat Trimarsanto

Affiliations Bioinformatics Laboratory, Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, Jakarta, Indonesia, The Ministry of Research and Technology (RISTEK), Jakarta, Indonesia, Agency for Assessment and Application of Technology, Jakarta, Indonesia

Ric N. Price

Affiliations Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research and Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Sarah Auburn

sharifisarasiabi@gmail.com (KSS); Sarah.Auburn@menzies.edu.au (SA)

Affiliation Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research and Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YH KSS RNP SA. Data curation: YH RS HT SA. Formal analysis: KSS HT SA. Funding acquisition: YH RNP. Investigation: YH KSS FD RS ST IH. Methodology: KSS ST IH. Project administration: YH RS RNP SA. Resources: YH RS RNP. Software: HT. Supervision: YH RS RNP SA. Writing – original draft: YH KSS RNP SA. Writing – review & editing: FD RS ST IH HT.