About the Authors

Zeno Bisoffi

zeno.bisoffi@sacrocuore.it

Affiliations Center for Tropical Diseases (CTD), Sacro Cuore Hospital, Negrar, Verona, Italy, Coordinating Resources to Assess and Improve Health Status of Migrants from Latin America (COHEMI) Project Study Group, European Commission, Health Cooperation Work Programme, FP7 (GA-261495)

Dora Buonfrate

Affiliations Center for Tropical Diseases (CTD), Sacro Cuore Hospital, Negrar, Verona, Italy, Coordinating Resources to Assess and Improve Health Status of Migrants from Latin America (COHEMI) Project Study Group, European Commission, Health Cooperation Work Programme, FP7 (GA-261495)

Marco Sequi

Affiliation Department of Public Health, IRCCS - Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Milan, Italy

Rojelio Mejia

Affiliation National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Ruben O. Cimino

Affiliation Instituto de Investigaciones en Enfermedades Tropicales - Universidad Nacional de Salta/CONICET, Oran, Argentina

Alejandro J. Krolewiecki

Affiliation Instituto de Investigaciones en Enfermedades Tropicales - Universidad Nacional de Salta/CONICET, Oran, Argentina

Marco Albonico

Affiliations Center for Tropical Diseases (CTD), Sacro Cuore Hospital, Negrar, Verona, Italy, Coordinating Resources to Assess and Improve Health Status of Migrants from Latin America (COHEMI) Project Study Group, European Commission, Health Cooperation Work Programme, FP7 (GA-261495)

Maria Gobbo

Affiliation Center for Tropical Diseases (CTD), Sacro Cuore Hospital, Negrar, Verona, Italy

Stefania Bonafini

Affiliation Center for Tropical Diseases (CTD), Sacro Cuore Hospital, Negrar, Verona, Italy

Andrea Angheben

Affiliations Center for Tropical Diseases (CTD), Sacro Cuore Hospital, Negrar, Verona, Italy, Coordinating Resources to Assess and Improve Health Status of Migrants from Latin America (COHEMI) Project Study Group, European Commission, Health Cooperation Work Programme, FP7 (GA-261495)

Ana Requena-Mendez

Affiliations Coordinating Resources to Assess and Improve Health Status of Migrants from Latin America (COHEMI) Project Study Group, European Commission, Health Cooperation Work Programme, FP7 (GA-261495), Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB, Hospital Clinic-Universitat de Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain

José Muñoz

Affiliations Coordinating Resources to Assess and Improve Health Status of Migrants from Latin America (COHEMI) Project Study Group, European Commission, Health Cooperation Work Programme, FP7 (GA-261495), Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB, Hospital Clinic-Universitat de Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain

Thomas B. Nutman

Affiliation National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZB DB AJK MA TBN. Performed the experiments: RM ROC MG SB. Analyzed the data: ZB DB MS AA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZB RM ROC MG SB TBN. Wrote the paper: ZB DB . Performed literature review: JM ARM DB. Critically revised the manuscript: ARM JM TBN MA AA. Read and approved the final version of the manuscript: ZB DB MS RM ROC AJK MA MG SB AA ARM JM TBN. Contributed equally to the manuscript: ZB DB.