Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Alireza Tahamtan ^{1, 2}
• Mohammad Barati ³
• Alijan Tabarraei ¹
• Seyed Reza Mohebbi ⁴
• Sadegh Shirian ⁵
• Ali Gorji ^{6, 7}
• Amir Ghaemi ⁸

¹ Infectious Diseases Research Center, Golestan University of Medical Sciences,

² Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan,

³ Infectious Diseases Research Center, AJA University of Medical Sciences,

⁴ Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases Research Center, Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran,

⁵ Department of Pathology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, Iran,

⁶ Department of Neurosurgery and Neurology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany,

⁷ Shefa Neuroscience Research Center

⁸ Department of Virology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran