About the Authors
- Lucila Okuyama Fukasawa
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Affiliation Center of Immunology, Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Maria Gisele Gonçalves
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Affiliation Center of Immunology, Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Fábio Takenori Higa
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Affiliation Center of Immunology, Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Euclides Ayres Castilho
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Affiliation Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Ana Belén Ibarz-Pavón
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Affiliation Pan-American Health Organization, Washington DC, United States of America
- Claudio Tavares Sacchi
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* E-mail: ctsacchi@gmail.com
Affiliation Center of Immunology, Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Funds were not received directly from the commercial source, but through the Pan American Health Organization Foundation (Formerly Pan American Health and Education Foundation (PAHEF). However, the authors felt are important to disclose the source even if there was no direct contact between the researchers and the financial source. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: ABIP CTS. Formal analysis: EAC. Funding acquisition: ABIP CTS. Investigation: LOF MGG FTH ABIP CTS. Methodology: LOF ABIP CTS. Project administration: CTS. Resources: ABIP CTS. Supervision: CTS. Writing – original draft: LOF ABIP CTS. Writing – review & editing: LOF MGG FTH EAC ABIP CTS.