About the Authors

Katia Cristina Dantas

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

kadantas@usp.br

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Sao Paulo University Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Roseli Santos de Freitas—Xavier

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Mycology Laboratory-LIM 53/HCFMUSP and Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Suzete Cleusa Ferreira Spina Lombardi

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Division of Research & Transfusion Medicine, Pro-Blood Foundation/Blood Center of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Alfredo Mendroni Júnior

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Investigation in Pathogenesis and Targeted Therapy in OncoImmuno-Hematology (LIM-31), Department of Hematology, Hospital das Clínicas -HCFMUSP, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Marcos Vinicius da Silva

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Emilio Ribas Institute of Infectious Diseases, Consultant, Ministry of Health, Department of Medicine, Catholic University of Sao Paulo, and Professor, Program in Postgraduate Sciences and Coordination of Disease Control, Department of State Health, São Paulo, Brazil

Paulo Ricardo Criado

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Full Researcher at ABC Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil

Vera Lúcia Teixeira de Freitas

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Investigation in Imunology (LIM-48), Department of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Sao Paulo University Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Terezinha Morato Bastos de Almeida

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oncology, Radiology and Oncology, São Paulo University Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

All authors declare that they have no competing interests.