About the Authors

Maria Eugenia Grillet

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mariaeugenia.grillet@gmail.com, maria.grillet@ciens.ucv.ve

Affiliation Laboratorio de Biología de Vectores y Parásitos, Instituto de Zoología y Ecología Tropical, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela. Caracas, Venezuela

Jorge E. Moreno

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro de Investigaciones de Campo “Dr. Francesco Vitanza,” Servicio Autónomo Instituto de Altos Estudios “Dr. Arnoldo Gabaldón,” MPPS. Tumeremo, Bolívar, Venezuela

Juan V. Hernández-Villena

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Laboratorio de Biología de Vectores y Parásitos, Instituto de Zoología y Ecología Tropical, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela. Caracas, Venezuela

Maria F. Vincenti-González

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen. Groningen, The Netherlands

Oscar Noya

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Instituto de Medicina Tropical, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Central de Venezuela. Caracas, Venezuela, Centro para Estudios Sobre Malaria, Instituto de Altos Estudios “Dr. Arnoldo Gabaldón”, MPPS. Caracas, Venezuela

Adriana Tami

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen. Groningen, The Netherlands, Departamento de Parasitología, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Carabobo. Valencia, Venezuela

Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Incubadora Venezolana de la Ciencia-IDB. Barquisimeto, Venezuela, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. New York, United States of America

Martin Llewellyn

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow. Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Rachel Lowe

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. London, United Kingdom, Barcelona Institute for Global Health-ISGlobal. Barcelona, Spain

Ananías A. Escalante

Roles Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine, Temple University. Philadelphia, United States of America

Jan E. Conn

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Griffin Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health. Albany, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, University at Albany—State University of New York. Albany, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist