About the Authors

Julio A. Benavides

Contributed equally to this work with: Julio A. Benavides, Ram K. Raghavan

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

benavidesjulio@yahoo.fr

Affiliations Doctorado en Medicina de la Conservación y Centro de Investigación para la Sustentabilidad, Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad Andres Bello, República 440 Santiago, Chile, MIVEGEC, IRD, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France, Departamento Higiene Veterinária e Saúde Pública, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade Estadual Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Botucatu, Brazil

Ram K. Raghavan

Contributed equally to this work with: Julio A. Benavides, Ram K. Raghavan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Public Health, School of Health Professions, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Vanner Boere

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Institute of Humanities, Arts and Sciences, Federal University of Southern Bahia -UFSB, Itabuna, Brazil

Silene Rocha

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde (SVS), Ministério da Saúde, Brasilia, Brazil

Marcelo Y. Wada

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde (SVS), Ministério da Saúde, Brasilia, Brazil

Alexander Vargas

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde (SVS), Ministério da Saúde, Brasilia, Brazil

Fernanda Voietta

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde (SVS), Ministério da Saúde, Brasilia, Brazil

Ita de Oliveira e Silva

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Institute of Humanities, Arts and Sciences, Federal University of Southern Bahia -UFSB, Itabuna, Brazil

Silvana Leal

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Secretaria de saúde de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

Alene de Castro

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Programa Estadual de Vigilância de Epizootia, Secretaria de saúde de Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil

Maria de Fatima Arruda

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Setor de Psicobiologia, Departamento de Fisiología Universidade Federal do Río Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil

A. Townsend Peterson

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Jane Megid

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Departamento Higiene Veterinária e Saúde Pública, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade Estadual Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Botucatu, Brazil

Maria Luiza Carrieri

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil

Ivanete Kotait

† Deceased.

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

‡ The authors wish to dedicate this work to the beloved memory of Dr Ivanete Kotait, who sadly passed away during the preparation of this manuscript.

Affiliation Retired Researcher, Instituto Biológico, São Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

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