About the Authors

Francisco Santos Schneider

Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Instituto Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brasil

Dung Le Nguyen

Affiliation SysDiag, UMR3145,CNRS/BioRad, Montpellier, France

Karen Larissa Castro

Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Instituto Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brasil

Sandra Cobo

Affiliation SysDiag, UMR3145,CNRS/BioRad, Montpellier, France

Ricardo Andrez Machado de Avila

Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Instituto Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brasil

Nivia de Assis Ferreira

Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Instituto Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brasil

Eladio Flores Sanchez

Affiliation Departamento de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento, Fundação Ezequiel Dias, Belo Horizonte, Brasil

Christophe Nguyen

Affiliation SysDiag, UMR3145,CNRS/BioRad, Montpellier, France

Claude Granier

Affiliation SysDiag, UMR3145,CNRS/BioRad, Montpellier, France

Pascale Galéa

Affiliation SysDiag, UMR3145,CNRS/BioRad, Montpellier, France

Carlos Chávez-Olortegui

olortegi@icb.ufmg.br

Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Instituto Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brasil

Franck Molina

Affiliation SysDiag, UMR3145,CNRS/BioRad, Montpellier, France

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: The authors Sandra Cobo and Pascale Galéa are employed by the comercial part (BioRad) of the mix enterprise SysDiag. In addition, mAbatrs are in the patent application process. This does not alter our adherence to all PLOS NTDs policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FSS DLN PG CCO FM. Performed the experiments: FSS DLN KLC SC RAMdA NdAF CN. Analyzed the data: FSS KLC SC RAMdA NdAF EFS CN CG PG CCO FM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DLN EFS PG CCO FM. Wrote the paper: FSS DLN RAMdA EFS CN CG PG CCO FM.