About the Authors

Ana E. Zeraik

Affiliations Departamento de Física e Informática, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil, Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Tropical Medicine, and Research Center for Neglected Tropical and Infectious Diseases of Poverty, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Gabriel Rinaldi

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Tropical Medicine, and Research Center for Neglected Tropical and Infectious Diseases of Poverty, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., United States of America, Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República (UDELAR), Montevideo, Uruguay

Victoria H. Mann

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Tropical Medicine, and Research Center for Neglected Tropical and Infectious Diseases of Poverty, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Anastas Popratiloff

Affiliation Center for Microscopy and Image Analysis, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Ana P. U. Araujo

Affiliation Departamento de Física e Informática, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil

Ricardo DeMarco

rdemarco@ifsc.usp.br (RDM); pbrindley@gwu.edu (PJB)

Affiliation Departamento de Física e Informática, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil

Paul J. Brindley

rdemarco@ifsc.usp.br (RDM); pbrindley@gwu.edu (PJB)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Tropical Medicine, and Research Center for Neglected Tropical and Infectious Diseases of Poverty, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AEZ GR APUA RDM PJB. Performed the experiments: AEZ GR AP. Analyzed the data: AEZ GR AP VHM APUA RDM PJB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AEZ GR VHM RDM AP. Wrote the paper: AEZ GR VHM AP APUA RDM PJB.