About the Authors
- Maria S. Andrade
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Contributed equally to this work with: Maria S. Andrade, Orin Courtenay
Affiliations Department of Immunology, Aggeu Magalhães Research Center-Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, University of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
- Orin Courtenay
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Contributed equally to this work with: Maria S. Andrade, Orin Courtenay
Affiliation Warwick Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research (WIDER) and School of Life Sciences, University Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
- Maria E. F. Brito
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Affiliation Department of Immunology, Aggeu Magalhães Research Center-Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
- Francisco G. Carvalho
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Affiliation Department of Immunology, Aggeu Magalhães Research Center-Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
- Ana Waléria S. Carvalho
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Affiliation Department of Immunology, Aggeu Magalhães Research Center-Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
- Fábia Soares
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Affiliation Department of Immunology, Aggeu Magalhães Research Center-Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
- Silvia M. Carvalho
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Affiliation Department of Immunology, Aggeu Magalhães Research Center-Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
- Pietra L. Costa
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Affiliation Department of Immunology, Aggeu Magalhães Research Center-Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
- Ricardo Zampieri
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Affiliation Biosiences Institute, São Paulo University, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Lucile M. Floeter-Winter
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Affiliation Biosiences Institute, São Paulo University, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Jeffrey J. Shaw
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* E-mail: jayusp@hotmail.com (JJS); sinval@cpqam.fiocruz.br SPBF
¶‡ JJS and SPBF also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Biomedical Institute, São Paulo University, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Sinval P. Brandão-Filho
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* E-mail: jayusp@hotmail.com (JJS); sinval@cpqam.fiocruz.br SPBF
¶‡ JJS and SPBF also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Immunology, Aggeu Magalhães Research Center-Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MSA OC JJS SPBF. Performed the experiments: MSA MEFB FGC AWSC SMC RZ FS. Analyzed the data: MSA OC LMFW JJS SPBF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FGC AWSC FS PLC RZ LMFW. Wrote the paper: MSA OC JJS SPBF. Obtained the permission in ethical comittee for animal use: MEFB SPBF.