About the Authors

Claudia Nieto-Sanchez

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centro de Investigación para la Salud en América Latina, Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America, Medical Anthropology Unit, Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Benjamin R. Bates

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America, School of Communication Studies, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Darwin Guerrero

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro de Investigación para la Salud en América Latina, Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

Sylvia Jimenez

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Facultad de Arquitectura, Arte y Diseño, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

Esteban G. Baus

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro de Investigación para la Salud en América Latina, Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

Koen Peeters Grietens

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Anthropology Unit, Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Mario J. Grijalva

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

grijalva@ohio.edu

Affiliations Centro de Investigación para la Salud en América Latina, Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.