About the Authors

Amanda N. B. Fontes

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

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Pathology, State Health Office, Fortaleza, Brazil

Rosa M. S. Mota

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Statistics and Applied Mathematics, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil

Rosa L. F. Almeida

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Post Graduation Program of Public Health, University of Fortaleza, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil

Maria A. Pontes

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Reference Center on Dermatology Dona Libânia, State Health Office, Fortaleza, Brazil

Heitor de S. Gonçalves

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Reference Center on Dermatology Dona Libânia, State Health Office, Fortaleza, Brazil

Cristiane C. Frota

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

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil

Varalakshmi D. Vissa

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

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

Ricardo J. P. S. Guimaraes

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Geoprocessing, Evandro Chagas Institute, Belém, Brazil

Carl Kendall

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

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

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

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.