About the Authors

Jose Muñoz

Contributed equally to this work with: Jose Muñoz, Maria Rosa Ballester

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Barcelona Institute for Global Health, ISGlobal-CRESIB, Universitat de Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain

Maria Rosa Ballester

Contributed equally to this work with: Jose Muñoz, Maria Rosa Ballester

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation CIM-Sant Pau. IIB Sant Pau. Institut de Recerca de l’Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau. Barcelona, Spain

Rosa Maria Antonijoan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliations CIM-Sant Pau. IIB Sant Pau. Institut de Recerca de l’Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau. Barcelona, Spain, Pharmacology and Therapeutics Department, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, Spain

Ignasi Gich

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliations CIM-Sant Pau. IIB Sant Pau. Institut de Recerca de l’Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau. Barcelona, Spain, Pharmacology and Therapeutics Department, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, Spain

Montse Rodríguez

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation CIM-Sant Pau. IIB Sant Pau. Institut de Recerca de l’Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau. Barcelona, Spain

Enrico Colli

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology

Affiliation ExeltisPharma, Chemo group. Madrid, Spain

Silvia Gold

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Fundacion Mundo Sano, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Alejandro J. Krolewiecki

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

alekrol@hotmail.com

Affiliation Instituto de Investigaciones en Enfermedades Tropicales, Universidad Nacional de Salta/CONICET, Oran, Argentina

Competing Interests

Yes. I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: EC and SG are members of Chemo Group, which includes Liconsa, the manufacturer of the study drug and Exeltis France, the funding source.