About the Authors

María F. García-Bustos

Contributed equally to this work with: María F. García-Bustos, Gabriela González-Prieto

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

morfofisiounsa@gmail.com (MFGB); aleba05@yahoo.com.ar (AB)

Affiliations Instituto de Patología Experimental, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Salta, Argentina, Escuela Universitaria en Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Católica de Salta, Salta, Argentina, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Salta, Argentina

Gabriela González-Prieto

Contributed equally to this work with: María F. García-Bustos, Gabriela González-Prieto

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

Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Salta, Argentina

Alberto E. Paniz-Mondolfi

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ AEP-M and CP also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas IDB, Departamento de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Medicina Tropical, Laboratorio de Patología de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Clínica IDB Cabudare, Cabudare, Venezuela

Cecilia Parodi

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ AEP-M and CP also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Instituto de Patología Experimental, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Salta, Argentina

Josefina Beckar

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Servicio de Otorrinolaringología, Hospital San Bernardo, Salta, Argentina

Sibila Monroig

Roles Resources

Affiliation Servicio de Otorrinolaringología, Hospital Papa Francisco, Salta, Argentina

Federico Ramos

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Instituto de Patología Experimental, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Salta, Argentina

María C. Mora

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Instituto de Patología Experimental, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Salta, Argentina

Lourdes A. Delgado-Noguera

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Visualization

Affiliations Leishmania Collaborative Network, Emerging Pathogens Division, The Venezuelan Science Incubator, Cabudare, Venezuela, Decanato de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado (UCLA), Barquisimeto, Venezuela

Yoshihisa Hashiguchi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Kochi Medical School, Kochi University, Nankoku, Kochi, Japan

Daniela Jaime

Roles Resources

Affiliation Servicio de Dermatología, Hospital Joaquín Castellanos, Güemes, Salta, Argentina

Sonia Moreno

Roles Resources

Affiliation Servicio de Dermatología, Hospital Señor del Milagro, Salta, Argentina

Luisa Ruiz-Morales

Roles Resources

Affiliation Servicio de Dermatología, Hospital San Bernardo, Salta, Argentina

César G. Lemir

Roles Resources

Affiliation Servicio de Infectología, Hospital San Bernardo, Salta, Argentina

Alejandra Barrio

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

morfofisiounsa@gmail.com (MFGB); aleba05@yahoo.com.ar (AB)

Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Salta, Argentina

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.