About the Authors

Alejandra Nóbrega Martinez

Contributed equally to this work with: Alejandra Nóbrega Martinez, Marcelo Ribeiro-Alves

Affiliation Laboratório de Hanseníase, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz – FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Marcelo Ribeiro-Alves

Contributed equally to this work with: Alejandra Nóbrega Martinez, Marcelo Ribeiro-Alves

Affiliations Laboratório de Hanseníase, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz – FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, CDTS, Center for Technological Development in Health, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz – FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Euzenir Nunes Sarno

Affiliation Laboratório de Hanseníase, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz – FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Milton Ozório Moraes

mmoraes@fiocruz.br

Affiliation Laboratório de Hanseníase, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz – FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MOM ENS. Performed the experiments: ANM MR-A. Analyzed the data: ANM MR-A MOM. Wrote the paper: ANS MOM MRA.