Shakiba Seifi ¹ , Ahmed S. Abdel-Moneim ² , Mohammad Yousef Alikhani ³ , Manish Pratap Singh ⁴ , Amir Sasan Mozaffari Nejad <sup>5,6*

1</sup> Nosocomial Infection Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
² Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
³ Infectious Disease Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
⁴ Department of Zoology, DDU Gorakhpur University, City Gorakhpur, India
⁵ Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
⁶ Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN) JMU Office, Jiroft University of Medical Sciences, Jiroft, Iran

*Corresponding Author: Amir Sasan Mozaffari Nejad, Email: asmnejad@res.mui.ac.ir