About the Authors

Jacqueline Evangelista Fonseca

Affiliation School of Engineering; Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering – Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Mariângela Carneiro

Affiliation Department of Parasitology; Institute of Biological Sciences and Graduate Program in Health Sciences: Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine – Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

João Luiz Pena

Affiliation School of Engineering; Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering – Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Enrico A. Colosimo

Affiliation Department of Statistics; Institute of Mathematical Sciences – Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Nívea Bispo da Silva

Affiliation Department of Statistics; Institute of Mathematical Sciences – Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

André Gabriel F. C. da. Costa

Affiliation Department of Statistics; Institute of Mathematical Sciences – Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Luciano E. Moreira

Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitology – Universidade Presidente Antônio Carlos, Teófilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sandy Cairncross

Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Léo Heller

heller@desa.ufmg.br

Affiliation School of Engineering; Department of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering – Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LH MC. Performed the experiments: JEF JLP. Analyzed the data: JEF EAC AGFCdC NBdS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LEM. Wrote the paper: JEF MC LH JLP SC.