About the Authors

Carolinne Sales-Marques

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Current address: Departamento de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Arapiraca, AL, Brazil.

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Laboratório de Hanseníase, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Cynthia Chester Cardoso

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft

Current address: Laboratório de Virologia Molecular, Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Laboratório de Hanseníase, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Lucia Elena Alvarado-Arnez

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratório de Hanseníase, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Ximena Illaramendi

Roles Resources

Affiliation Laboratório de Hanseníase, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Anna Maria Sales

Roles Resources

Affiliation Laboratório de Hanseníase, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Mariana de Andréa Hacker

Roles Resources

Affiliation Laboratório de Hanseníase, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Mayara Garcia de Mattos Barbosa

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Laboratório de Hanseníase, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

José Augusto da Costa Nery

Roles Resources

Affiliation Laboratório de Hanseníase, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Roberta Olmo Pinheiro

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Laboratório de Hanseníase, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Euzenir Nunes Sarno

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Laboratório de Hanseníase, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Antonio Guilherme Pacheco

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Programa de Computação Científica (PROCC), FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Milton Ozório Moraes

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

milton.moraes@fiocruz.br

Affiliation Laboratório de Hanseníase, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.