About the Authors
- Amanda N. B. Fontes
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology
Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology Applied to Mycobacteria, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Luana N. G. C. Lima
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Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology
Affiliation Department of Pathology, State Health Office, Fortaleza, Brazil
- Rosa M. S. Mota
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology
Affiliation Department of Statistics and Applied Mathematics, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil
- Rosa L. F. Almeida
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology
Affiliation Post Graduation Program of Public Health, University of Fortaleza, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil
- Maria A. Pontes
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Roles Data curation, Methodology
Affiliation Reference Center on Dermatology Dona Libânia, State Health Office, Fortaleza, Brazil
- Heitor de S. Gonçalves
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Roles Investigation, Methodology
Affiliation Reference Center on Dermatology Dona Libânia, State Health Office, Fortaleza, Brazil
- Cristiane C. Frota
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Pathology, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil
- Varalakshmi D. Vissa
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
- Patrick J. Brennan
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Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation
Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
- Ricardo J. P. S. Guimaraes
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Laboratory of Geoprocessing, Evandro Chagas Institute, Belém, Brazil
- Carl Kendall
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Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, United States, Department of Community Health, College of Medicine, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil
- Ligia R. F. S. Kerr
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Community Health, College of Medicine, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil
- Philip N. Suffys
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: psuffys@gmail.com
Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Biology Applied to Mycobacteria, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Mycobacteriology Unit, Tropical Institute of Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.