Correction to: Virology Journal (2022) 19:88 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12985-022-01823-0

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors would like to correct the affiliation of author Hadiseh Shokouhi Targhi and author Mehriar Amininasab. Also they corrected the Author contributions.

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The corrected Author contributions should read:

The idea and design of project: MA; designed the experiments: HST, FF, PM; performed the experiments: HST; Analyzed data: HST, FF, PM; Wrote the paper: HST; Comprehensive reading and editing of the manuscript: MA, FF, PM.

The authors affiliation has been updated above and the original article [1] has been corrected.