Contamination of medical devices and hospital environments with free-living amoebae: Evidence from hospitals in Northwestern Iran

• Hamed Behniafar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Parasitology, Sarab Faculty of Medical Sciences, Sarab, East Azerbaijan, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4596-3789

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• Adel Spotin,

  Roles Software

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology and Mycology, Faculty of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

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• Ali Bahadori,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Sarab Faculty of Medical Sciences, Sarab, East Azerbaijan, Iran

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• Soghra Valizadeh,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Food Hygiene and Aquatic, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

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• Leili Valizadeh,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran

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• Hosein Pazoki,

  Roles Investigation, Software

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Research Center, Gonabad University of Medical Science, Gonabad, Iran

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• Fatemeh Mahdavi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fatemeh Mahdavi, Maryam Niyyati

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization

  * E-mail: fmahdaviabhari@gmail.com (FM), maryamniyati@yahoo.com (MN)

  Affiliation Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0009-0006-4308-5579

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• Maryam Niyyati

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fatemeh Mahdavi, Maryam Niyyati

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fmahdaviabhari@gmail.com (FM), maryamniyati@yahoo.com (MN)

  Affiliation Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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