About the Authors

Gisele Macêdo Rodrigues da Cunha

Contributed equally to this work with: Gisele Macêdo Rodrigues da Cunha, Maíra Araújo Azevedo

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Departamento de Parasitologia, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Maíra Araújo Azevedo

Contributed equally to this work with: Gisele Macêdo Rodrigues da Cunha, Maíra Araújo Azevedo

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Departamento de Parasitologia, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Denise Silva Nogueira

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Departamento de Parasitologia, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Marianna de Carvalho Clímaco

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Departamento de Parasitologia, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Edward Valencia Ayala

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Universidad San Martin de Porres, Lima, Peru

Juan Atilio Jimenez Chunga

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Faculdad de Ciencias Biologicas, Escuela Profesional de Microbiología y Parasitología—Laboratorio de Parasitología en Fauna Silvestre y Zoonosis, Lima, Peru

Raul Jesus Ynocente La Valle

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Faculdad de Ciencias Biologicas, Escuela Profesional de Microbiología y Parasitología—Laboratorio de Parasitología en Fauna Silvestre y Zoonosis, Lima, Peru

Lucia Maria da Cunha Galvão

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Departamento de Parasitologia, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Egler Chiari

† Deceased.

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Departamento de Parasitologia, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Carlos Ramon Nascimento Brito

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte—Centro de Ciências da Saúde—Departamento de Análises Clínicas e Toxicológicas, Natal, Brazil

Rodrigo Pedro Soares

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Instituto René Rachou/FIOCRUZ–MG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Paula Monalisa Nogueira

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Instituto René Rachou/FIOCRUZ–MG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Ricardo Toshio Fujiwara

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Departamento de Parasitologia, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Ricardo Gazzinelli

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology

Affiliations Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Departamento de Parasitologia, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Instituto René Rachou/FIOCRUZ–MG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Robert Hincapie

Roles Methodology

Affiliation School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Carlos-Sanhueza Chaves

Roles Methodology

Affiliation School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Fabricio Marcus Silva Oliveira

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Departamento de Parasitologia, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

M. G. Finn

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Alexandre Ferreira Marques

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

amarques8@gatech.edu

Affiliation Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Departamento de Parasitologia, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Author Professor Egler Chiari was unable to confirm their authorship contributions. On their behalf, the corresponding author has reported their contributions to the best of their knowledge.