About the Authors

Gabriella Neves Leal Santos Barreto

Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriella Neves Leal Santos Barreto, Sâmella Silva de Oliveira

Affiliation Laboratorio de Fisiopatologia, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Sâmella Silva de Oliveira

Contributed equally to this work with: Gabriella Neves Leal Santos Barreto, Sâmella Silva de Oliveira

Current address: Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Brazil

Affiliation Laboratorio de Fisiopatologia, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Isabelle Valle dos Anjos

Affiliation Laboratorio de Fisiopatologia, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Hipocrates de Menezes Chalkidis

Affiliation Laboratório de Pesquisas Zoológicas, Faculdades Integradas do Tapajós/Faculdade da Amazônia (FIT/UNAMA), Santarém, Pará, Brazil

Rosa Helena Veras Mourão

Affiliation Laboratório de Bioprospecção e Biologia Experimental, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Santarém, Pará, Brazil

Ana Maria Moura-da-Silva

Affiliation Laboratorio de Imunopatologia, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Ida Sigueko Sano-Martins

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Laboratorio de Fisiopatologia, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Luis Roberto de Camargo Gonçalves

luis.goncalves@butantan.gov.br

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Laboratorio de Fisiopatologia, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: LRdCG ISSM. Formal analysis: GNLSB SSdO ISSM LRdCG. Funding acquisition: AMMdS. Investigation: GNLSB SSdO IVdA ISSM LRdCG. Project administration: ISSM LRdCG. Resources: HdMC RHVM AMMdS ISSM LRdCG. Supervision: ISSM LRdCG. Visualization: GNLSB SSdO IVdA ISSM LRdCG. Writing – original draft: ISSM LRdCG. Writing – review & editing: GNLSB SSdO AMMdS ISSM LRdCG.