About the Authors

Vicente Maco

vicente_maco@hotmail.com

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

Mayling Encalada

Affiliation Ministry of Public Health, Quito, Ecuador

Carlos Wong

Affiliation Institute of Ophthalmology Wong, San Isidro, Lima, Peru

Luis A. Marcos

Affiliations Institute of Tropical Medicine Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, Departments of Medicine, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.