About the Authors

Elsa Fortes-Gabriel

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Instituto Superior Técnico Militar—Estado Maior General das Forças Armadas Angolanas, Luanda, Angola, Immuno Technologies Inc, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Mariana Soares Guedes

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Current address: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Affiliation Immuno Technologies Inc, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Advait Shetty

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences—University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Charles Klazer Gomes

Roles Methodology

Current address: Dynavax, Emeryville, California, United States of America

Affiliation Immuno Technologies Inc, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Teresa Carreira

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical—Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Maria Luísa Vieira

Roles Resources

Affiliation Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical—Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

Lisa Esteves

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Molecular Genetics and Pathlogy Unit—Hospital do Divino Espírito Santo de Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island—Azores, Portugal

Luísa Mota-Vieira

Roles Resources

Affiliations Molecular Genetics and Pathlogy Unit—Hospital do Divino Espírito Santo de Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island—Azores, Portugal, Azores Genetics Research Group—Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Maria Gomes-Solecki

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mgomesso@uthsc.edu

Affiliations Immuno Technologies Inc, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences—University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: MG-S (grants from federal agencies and employment). All other authors declare no conflicts.