About the Authors

Júlia Fonseca de Morais Caporali

Affiliation Graduate Program in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Denise Utsch Gonçalves

deniseg@medicina.ufmg.br (DUG); jrlambertu@gmail.com (JRL)

‡ DUG and JRL are joint senior authors.

Affiliation Graduate Program in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Ludimila Labanca

Affiliation Graduate Program in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Leonardo Dornas de Oliveira

Affiliation Department of Neurophysiology, University Hospital, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Guilherme Vaz de Melo Trindade

Affiliation Graduate Program in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Thiago de Almeida Pereira

Affiliation Graduate Program in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Pedro Henrique Diniz Cunha

Affiliation Graduate Program in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Marina Santos Falci Mourão

Affiliation Graduate Program in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

José Roberto Lambertucci

deniseg@medicina.ufmg.br (DUG); jrlambertu@gmail.com (JRL)

‡ DUG and JRL are joint senior authors.

Affiliation Graduate Program in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine, Federal University of 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: JFdMC DUG JRL. Performed the experiments: JFdMC LL PHDC MSFM. Analyzed the data: JFdMC LL LDdO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DUG JRL. Wrote the paper: JFdMC DUG LL LDO GVdMT TdAP PHDC JRL.