About the Authors

Francisco P. Freire-Neto

Contributed equally to this work with: Francisco P. Freire-Neto, Diego G. Teixeira

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

Affiliations Instituto de Medicina Tropical do Rio Grande do Norte, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, Departmento de Bioquímica, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Getúlio Sales Diagnósticos, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Diego G. Teixeira

Contributed equally to this work with: Francisco P. Freire-Neto, Diego G. Teixeira

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

Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical do Rio Grande do Norte, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Dayse C. S. da Cunha

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

Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical do Rio Grande do Norte, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Ingryd C. Morais

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical do Rio Grande do Norte, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Celisa P. M. Tavares

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical do Rio Grande do Norte, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Genilson P. Gurgel

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Secretaria Municipal de Saúde, Apodi, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Sanderson D. N. Medeiros

Roles Resources

Affiliation Getúlio Sales Diagnósticos, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

David C. dos Santos

Roles Data curation, Software

Affiliation Instituto Metrópole Digital, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Alexandre de O. Sales

Roles Resources

Affiliation Getúlio Sales Diagnósticos, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Selma M. B. Jeronimo

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

selma.jeronimo@ufrn.br

Affiliations Instituto de Medicina Tropical do Rio Grande do Norte, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, Departmento de Bioquímica, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Norte, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia de Doenças Tropicais, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.