About the Authors

Carlos Araujo da Costa

Affiliation Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil

Karen Cristini Yumi Ogawa Furtado

Affiliation Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil

Louise de Souza Canto Ferreira

Affiliation Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil

Danilo de Souza Almeida

Affiliation Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil

Alexandre da Costa Linhares

Affiliation Section of Virology, Instituto Evandro Chagas, Ministério da Saúde, Ananindeua, Pará, Brazil

Ricardo Ishak

Affiliation Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil

Antonio Carlos Rosário Vallinoto

Affiliation Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil

José Alexandre Rodrigues de Lemos

Affiliation Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil

Luisa Caricio Martins

Affiliation Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil

Edna Aoba Yassui Ishikawa

Affiliation Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil

Rita Catarina Medeiros de Sousa

Affiliations Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil, Section of Virology, Instituto Evandro Chagas, Ministério da Saúde, Ananindeua, Pará, Brazil

Maísa Silva de Sousa

maisasousa@ufpa.br

Affiliations Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil, Section of Virology, Instituto Evandro Chagas, Ministério da Saúde, Ananindeua, Pará, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CAdC RCMdS MSdS. Performed the experiments: CAdC KCYOF LdSCF DdSA AdCL RI ACRV JARdL LCM EAYI RCMdS MSdS. Analyzed the data: CAdC KCYOF LdSCF DdSA AdCL RI ACRV JARdL LCM EAYI RCMdS MSdS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CAdC KCYOF LdSCF DdSA AdCL RI ACRV JARdL LCM EAYI RCMdS MSdS. Wrote the paper: CAdC KCYOF LdSCF DdSA AdCL RI ACRV JARdL LCM EAYI RCMdS MSdS.