About the Authors

Lisandro D. Colantonio

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Nilda Prado

Affiliation National Institute of Parasitology “Dr. Mario Fatala Chaben”-CONICET-ANLIS, Ministry of Health, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Elsa L. Segura

Affiliation National Institute of Parasitology “Dr. Mario Fatala Chaben”-CONICET-ANLIS, Ministry of Health, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Sergio Sosa-Estani

ssosa@msal.gov.ar

Affiliation National Institute of Parasitology “Dr. Mario Fatala Chaben”-CONICET-ANLIS, Ministry of Health, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ELS SSE. Performed the experiments: NP SSE. Analyzed the data: LDC SSE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SSE. Wrote the paper: LDC SSE.