**Author details**

Razzagh Mahmoudi1 \*, Ata Kaboudari<sup>2</sup> and Babak Pakbin3

1 Medical Microbiology Research Center, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran

2 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran

3 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

\*Address all correspondence to: r.mahmodi@yahoo.com

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