About the Authors

Victor Manuel Dzul-Huchim

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Laboratorio de Parasitología, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, México

Maria Jesus Ramirez-Sierra

Roles Resources

Affiliation Laboratorio de Parasitología, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, México

Pedro Pablo Martinez-Vega

Roles Resources

Affiliation Laboratorio de Parasitología, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, México

Miguel Enrique Rosado-Vallado

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

Affiliation Laboratorio de Parasitología, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, México

Victor Ermilo Arana-Argaez

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratorio de Farmacología, Facultad de Química, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, México

Jaime Ortega-Lopez

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Biotecnología y Bioingeniería, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Ciudad de México, México

Fabian Gusovsky

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Eisai, Inc., Eisai Inc, Andover, Massachusetts, United States of America

Eric Dumonteil

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and Vector-Borne and Infectious Disease Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans, Los Angeles, United States of America

Julio Vladimir Cruz-Chan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratorio de Parasitología, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, México

Peter Hotez

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

Affiliations Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America

María Elena Bottazzi

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

Affiliations Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America

Liliana Estefania Villanueva-Lizama

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

liliana.villanueva@correo.uady.mx

Affiliation Laboratorio de Parasitología, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, México

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: María Elena Bottazzi and Peter J. Hotez are part of a team of scientists advancing research towards the development of a therapeutic Chagas disease vaccine and are listed among the inventors on Chagas disease vaccine patents submitted by Baylor College of Medicine and others. Author Fabian Gusovsky is employed by Eisai, Inc. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.