About the Authors

Camilo Beltrán-Alzate

Affiliation Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical–Universidad CES Sabaneta, Antioquia, Colombia

Fernando López Díaz

Affiliation Sanatorio de Agua de Dios, Agua de Dios Cundinamarca, Colombia

Marcela Romero-Montoya

Affiliation Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical–Universidad CES Sabaneta, Antioquia, Colombia

Rama Sakamuri

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Wei Li

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Miyako Kimura

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Patrick Brennan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Nora Cardona-Castro

ncardona@ces.edu.co

Affiliations Instituto Colombiano de Medicina Tropical–Universidad CES Sabaneta, Antioquia, Colombia, Facultad de Medicina. Universidad CES, Medellín, Colombia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: NCC PB. Data curation: CBA MRM NCC. Formal analysis: NCC CBA PB. Funding acquisition: NCC PB. Investigation: CBB MRM FLD RS WL MK NCC. Methodology: RS WL MK CBA MRM NCC. Project administration: NCC. Resources: NCC. Supervision: PB. Visualization: NCC PB. Writing – original draft: NCC. Writing – review & editing: NCC PB.