About the Authors

Azar Dokht Khosravi

Contributed equally to this work with: Azar Dokht Khosravi, Moloudsadat Motahar, Effat Abbasi Montazeri

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ ADK is a senior author on this work.

Affiliations Infectious and Tropical Diseases Research Center, Health Research Institute, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran, Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran

Moloudsadat Motahar

Contributed equally to this work with: Azar Dokht Khosravi, Moloudsadat Motahar, Effat Abbasi Montazeri

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software

motahar.m91@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran

Effat Abbasi Montazeri

Contributed equally to this work with: Azar Dokht Khosravi, Moloudsadat Motahar, Effat Abbasi Montazeri

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.