About the Authors

Thiago P. Chaves

Contributed equally to this work with: Thiago P. Chaves, Felipe Hugo A. Fernandes, Jocimar S. Santos, Ana Cláudia D. Medeiros

Affiliations Laboratory of drug assay and development, Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil, Department of Natural Sciences, Universidade Federal do Piauí, Bom Jesus, Piauí, Brazil

Felipe Hugo A. Fernandes

Contributed equally to this work with: Thiago P. Chaves, Felipe Hugo A. Fernandes, Jocimar S. Santos, Ana Cláudia D. Medeiros

Affiliations Laboratory of drug assay and development, Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil

Cleildo P. Santana

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Laboratory of drug assay and development, Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil

Jocimar S. Santos

Contributed equally to this work with: Thiago P. Chaves, Felipe Hugo A. Fernandes, Jocimar S. Santos, Ana Cláudia D. Medeiros

Affiliation Laboratory of drug assay and development, Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil

Francinalva D. Medeiros

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Laboratory of drug assay and development, Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil

Délcio C. Felismino

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Laboratory of drug assay and development, Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil

Vanda L. Santos

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Laboratory of Pharmacology, Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil

Raïssa Mayer R. Catão

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Laboratory of Research in Microbiology, Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil

Henrique Douglas M. Coutinho

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Universidade Regional do Cariri, Crato, CE, Brazil

Ana Cláudia D. Medeiros

Contributed equally to this work with: Thiago P. Chaves, Felipe Hugo A. Fernandes, Jocimar S. Santos, Ana Cláudia D. Medeiros

anaclaudia@uepb.edu.br

Affiliation Laboratory of drug assay and development, Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ACDM TPC. Performed the experiments: TPC FHAF FDM CPS JSS VLS. Analyzed the data: TPC FDM VLS HDMC RMRC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ACDM DCF. Wrote the paper: TPC ACDM FDM.