**Author details**

Elif Bozcal1,2

1 Department of Biology, Basic and Industrial Microbiology Section, Faculty of Science, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey

2 Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

\*Address all correspondence to: elif.bozcal@istanbul.edu.tr

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