About the Authors

Teresa Escalante

Affiliation Instituto Clodomiro Picado, Facultad de Microbiología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

Natalia Ortiz

Affiliations Instituto Clodomiro Picado, Facultad de Microbiología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, Departamento de Bioquímica, Escuela de Medicina, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

Alexandra Rucavado

Affiliation Instituto Clodomiro Picado, Facultad de Microbiología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

Eladio F. Sanchez

Affiliation Centro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento, Fundaçao Ezequiel Dias (FUNED), Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Michael Richardson

Affiliation Centro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento, Fundaçao Ezequiel Dias (FUNED), Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Jay W. Fox

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

José María Gutiérrez

jose.gutierrez@ucr.ac.cr

Affiliation Instituto Clodomiro Picado, Facultad de Microbiología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TE AR JWF JMG. Performed the experiments: TE NO AR EFS MR JWF JMG. Analyzed the data: TE NO AR EFS MR JWF JMG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TE AR EFS JWF JMG. Wrote the paper: TE AR JWF JMG.