About the Authors

Jordana Grazziela Alves Coelho-dos-Reis

Contributed equally to this work with: Jordana Grazziela Alves Coelho-dos-Reis, Livia Passos

Affiliations Laboratório de Biomarcadores de Diagnóstico e Monitoração, Instituto René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America, Interdisciplinary HTLV Research Group – GIPH – HEMOMINAS, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Livia Passos

Contributed equally to this work with: Jordana Grazziela Alves Coelho-dos-Reis, Livia Passos

Affiliations Laboratório de Biomarcadores de Diagnóstico e Monitoração, Instituto René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Interdisciplinary HTLV Research Group – GIPH – HEMOMINAS, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Mariana Costa Duarte

Affiliation Laboratório de Biomarcadores de Diagnóstico e Monitoração, Instituto René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Marcelo Grossi Araújo

Affiliations Interdisciplinary HTLV Research Group – GIPH – HEMOMINAS, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Ana Carolina Campi-Azevedo

Affiliation Laboratório de Biomarcadores de Diagnóstico e Monitoração, Instituto René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Andréa Teixeira-Carvalho

Affiliation Laboratório de Biomarcadores de Diagnóstico e Monitoração, Instituto René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Vanessa Peruhype-Magalhães

Affiliation Laboratório de Biomarcadores de Diagnóstico e Monitoração, Instituto René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Bruno Caetano Trindade

Affiliation Laboratório de Biomarcadores de Diagnóstico e Monitoração, Instituto René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Raquel dos Santos Dias

Affiliations Interdisciplinary HTLV Research Group – GIPH – HEMOMINAS, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Marina Lobato Martins

Affiliation Interdisciplinary HTLV Research Group – GIPH – HEMOMINAS, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Anna Barbara de Freitas Carneiro-Proietti

Affiliation Interdisciplinary HTLV Research Group – GIPH – HEMOMINAS, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Antônio Carlos Guedes

Affiliations Interdisciplinary HTLV Research Group – GIPH – HEMOMINAS, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Denise Utsch Gonçalves

Affiliations Interdisciplinary HTLV Research Group – GIPH – HEMOMINAS, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Olindo Assis Martins-Filho

oamfilho@cpqrr.fiocruz.br

Affiliations Laboratório de Biomarcadores de Diagnóstico e Monitoração, Instituto René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, Interdisciplinary HTLV Research Group – GIPH – HEMOMINAS, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OAMF ATC DUG MGA ABdFCP ACG. Performed the experiments: JGACdR LP MLM MCD BCT VPM RdSD. Analyzed the data: JGACdR OAMF ACCA VPM ATC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ABdFCP. Wrote the paper: JGACdR OAMF.