About the Authors

Josafá Gonçalves Barreto

Affiliations Laboratório de Dermato-Imunologia UEPA/UFPA/Marcello Candia, Marituba, Pará, Brasil, Universidade Federal do Pará, Campus Castanhal, Pará, Brasil

Donal Bisanzio

Affiliation Department of Environmental Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Layana de Souza Guimarães

Affiliation Unidade de Referência Especializada em Dermatologia Sanitária Dr. Marcello Candia, Marituba, Pará, Brasil

John Stewart Spencer

Affiliation Mycobacteria Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Gonzalo M. Vazquez-Prokopec

Affiliation Department of Environmental Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Uriel Kitron

Affiliation Department of Environmental Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Claudio Guedes Salgado

csalgado@ufpa.br

Affiliations Laboratório de Dermato-Imunologia UEPA/UFPA/Marcello Candia, Marituba, Pará, Brasil, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brasil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JGB LdSG JSS CGS. Performed the experiments: JGB LdSG CGS. Analyzed the data: JGB DB GMVP UK CGS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JSS GMVP UK CGS. Wrote the paper: JGB DB JSS GMVP UK CGS.