About the Authors

Fred Luciano Neves Santos

Contributed equally to this work with: Fred Luciano Neves Santos, Paola Alejandra Fiorani Celedon

fred.santos@bahia.fiocruz.br

Current address: Gonçalo Moniz Research Center, FIOCRUZ-BA, Salvador, BA, Brazil

Affiliation Aggeu Magalhães Research Center, FIOCRUZ-PE, Recife, PE, Brazil

Paola Alejandra Fiorani Celedon

Contributed equally to this work with: Fred Luciano Neves Santos, Paola Alejandra Fiorani Celedon

Affiliation Molecular Biology Institute of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil

Nilson Ivo Tonin Zanchin

Affiliations Molecular Biology Institute of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil, Carlos Chagas Institute, FIOCRUZ-PR, Curitiba, PR, Brazil

Tatiana de Arruda Campos Brasil

Affiliation Carlos Chagas Institute, FIOCRUZ-PR, Curitiba, PR, Brazil

Leonardo Foti

Affiliations Molecular Biology Institute of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil, Carlos Chagas Institute, FIOCRUZ-PR, Curitiba, PR, Brazil

Wayner Vieira de Souza

Affiliation Aggeu Magalhães Research Center, FIOCRUZ-PE, Recife, PE, Brazil

Edmilson Domingos Silva

Affiliation Biomanguinhos, FIOCRUZ-RJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Yara de Miranda Gomes

Affiliation Aggeu Magalhães Research Center, FIOCRUZ-PE, Recife, PE, Brazil

Marco Aurélio Krieger

Affiliations Molecular Biology Institute of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil, Carlos Chagas Institute, FIOCRUZ-PR, Curitiba, PR, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: FLNS PAFC NITZ YMG MAK. Data curation: FLNS. Formal analysis: FLNS WVS. Funding acquisition: YMG MAK. Investigation: FLNS PAFC TACB LF. Methodology: FLNS PAFC NITZ TACB LF EDS YMG MAK. Project administration: FLNS YMG MAK. Resources: NITZ LF EDS YMG MAK. Supervision: YMG MAK. Validation: FLNS PAFC LF WVS YMG. Visualization: FLNS. Writing - original draft: FLNS PAFC. Writing - review & editing: NITZ TACB LF WVS YMG MAK.