About the Authors
- Cristian Valencia
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Contributed equally to this work with: Cristian Valencia, Jorge Arévalo
Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical ″Alexander von Humboldt,″ Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), Lima, Peru
- Jorge Arévalo
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Contributed equally to this work with: Cristian Valencia, Jorge Arévalo
Affiliations Instituto de Medicina Tropical ″Alexander von Humboldt,″ Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), Lima, Peru, Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollo, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
- Jean Claude Dujardin
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Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
- Alejandro Llanos-Cuentas
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Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical ″Alexander von Humboldt,″ Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), Lima, Peru
- François Chappuis
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Affiliation Hospitaux Universitaires de Geneve, Geneve, Switzerland
- Mirko Zimic
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* E-mail: mzimic@jhsph.edu
Affiliation Unidad de Bioinformática, Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollo, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: CV JA. Performed the experiments: CV MZ. Analyzed the data: CV MZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CV JA. Wrote the paper: CV JA MZ JCD FC ALC. Responsible for the clinical management of enrolled patients: ALC. Principal investigator of the study: JCD. Data manager and data curator of the study: FC.