About the Authors

Ligia Capuani

lcapuani@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine—University of Sao Paulo—FMUSP, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Ana Luiza Bierrenbach

Affiliation Institute of Education and Research, Hospital Sirio Libanes, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Airlane Pereira Alencar

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sao Paulo—IME-USP, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Alfredo Mendrone Jr.

Affiliation Fundação Pró-Sangue—Hemocenter of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

João Eduardo Ferreira

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sao Paulo—IME-USP, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Brian Custer

Affiliation Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Blood Systems Research Institute—BSRI, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Antonio Luiz P. Ribeiro

Affiliation Hospital das Clínicas and School of Medicine, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais—UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Ester Cerdeira Sabino

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine and Tropical Medicine Institute—University of Sao Paulo—FMUSP, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: LC ALB ECS. Data curation: LC ALB. Formal analysis: LC ALB APA AM ALPR JEF ECS. Funding acquisition: LC ECS. Methodology: LC ALB ECS. Project administration: LC. Writing – original draft: LC ALB ECS. Writing – review & editing: LC ALB BC ALPR ECS.