About the Authors

Duc Minh Nguyen

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Comparative Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Cristina Poveda

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jeroen Pollet

Roles Resources

Affiliation Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Fabian Gusovsky

Roles Resources

Affiliation Global Health Research, Eisai, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Maria Elena Bottazzi

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision

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

Peter J. Hotez

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliations Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Kathryn Marie Jones

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

kathrynj@bcm.edu

Affiliations Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

All authors of this manuscript currently are involved in a Chagas vaccine development program. MEB and PJH are listed among the inventors on a Chagas disease vaccine patent, submitted by Baylor College of Medicine. FG is employed at Eisai Inc.