aDepartment of Radiology, Vali-e-asr Hospital, School of Medicine, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran
bDepartment of Pathology, Vali-e-asr Hospital, School of Medicine, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran
cDepartment of Internal Medicine, Vali-e-asr Hospital, School of Medicine, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran
dDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Vali-e-asr Hospital, School of Medicine, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran
eSchool of Medicine, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
fMedical Biology Research Center, Health Technology Institute, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
⁎Corresponding author at: Medical Biology Research Center, School of Medicine, Sorkheh Ligeh Blvd, Kermanshah, P.O. Box 67145-1673, Iran. norooznezhad@gmail.com
1Authors contributed equally in this work.
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