About the Authors

Tatiana R. de Moura

Contributed equally to this work with: Tatiana R. de Moura, Fabiano Oliveira

Current address: Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil.

Affiliation Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Fabiano Oliveira

Contributed equally to this work with: Tatiana R. de Moura, Fabiano Oliveira

Affiliation Vector Molecular Biology Section, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Marcia W. Carneiro

Affiliation Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

José Carlos Miranda

Affiliation Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Jorge Clarêncio

Affiliation Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Manoel Barral-Netto

Affiliations Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia de Investigação em Imunologia (iii-INCT), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Cláudia Brodskyn

Affiliations Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia de Investigação em Imunologia (iii-INCT), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Aldina Barral

Affiliations Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia de Investigação em Imunologia (iii-INCT), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

José M. C. Ribeiro

Affiliation Vector Biology Section, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Jesus G. Valenzuela

jvalenzuela@niaid.nih.gov (JGV); camila@bahia.fiocruz.br (CIdO)

Affiliation Vector Molecular Biology Section, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Camila I. de Oliveira

jvalenzuela@niaid.nih.gov (JGV); camila@bahia.fiocruz.br (CIdO)

Affiliations Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia de Investigação em Imunologia (iii-INCT), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TRdM FO JGV CIdO. Performed the experiments: TRdM FO MWC JC. Analyzed the data: TRdM FO MBN CB AB JMCR JGV CIdO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JCM. Wrote the paper: TRdM FO JMCR JGV. Designed the software used in the analysis: JMCR.