About the Authors

Fhabián S. Carrión-Nessi

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

Affiliations Immunogenetics Section, Laboratory of Pathophysiology, Centro de Medicina Experimental, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Altos de Pipe, Venezuela, Biomedical Research and Therapeutic Vaccines Institute, Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela, “Luis Razetti” School of Medicine, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela

Eva Salazar-Alcalá

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Immunogenetics Section, Laboratory of Pathophysiology, Centro de Medicina Experimental, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Altos de Pipe, Venezuela

David A. Forero-Peña

Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biomedical Research and Therapeutic Vaccines Institute, Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela, “Luis Razetti” School of Medicine, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela, Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitario de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela

Kellys A. Curiel

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Biomedical Research and Therapeutic Vaccines Institute, Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela

Mary Lopez-Perez

Roles Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Translational Medicine and Parasitology, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Mercedes Fernández-Mestre

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

mfernandezmestre@gmail.com

Affiliation Immunogenetics Section, Laboratory of Pathophysiology, Centro de Medicina Experimental, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Altos de Pipe, Venezuela

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Mary Lopez-Perez is an Editorial Board Member of the journal PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. The rest of the authors have declared that no competing interests exist.