About the Authors

Thales Domingos Arantes

smah05@hotmail.com, smah055@yahoo.com.br

Affiliations Departamento de Microbiologia e Imunologia, Instituto de Biociências de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista/UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil, Instituto de Medicina Tropical—IMT/RN, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte/UFRN, Natal, Brazil

Raquel Cordeiro Theodoro

Affiliations Instituto de Medicina Tropical—IMT/RN, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte/UFRN, Natal, Brazil, Departamento de Biologia Celular e Genética, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte/UFRN, Natal, Brazil

Marcus de Melo Teixeira

Affiliations Departamento de Biologia Celular, Universidade de Brasília–UnB, Brasília, Brazil, Northern Arizona Center for Valley Fever Research, Translational Genomics Research Institute–Tgen North, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Sandra de Moraes Gimenes Bosco

Affiliation Departamento de Microbiologia e Imunologia, Instituto de Biociências de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista/UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil

Eduardo Bagagli

Affiliation Departamento de Microbiologia e Imunologia, Instituto de Biociências de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista/UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TDA RCT EB. Performed the experiments: TDA MdMT SdMGB. Analyzed the data: TDA RCT MdMT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TDA RCT MdMT SdMGB EB. Wrote the paper: TDA RCT MdMT SdMGB EB.