About the Authors

Federico Costa

fcosta@pqvisitante.bahia.fiocruz.br

Affiliations Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Bahia, Brazil

Guilherme S. Ribeiro

Affiliations Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Bahia, Brazil

Ridalva D. M. Felzemburgh

Affiliation Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Norlan Santos

Affiliation Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Renato Barbosa Reis

Affiliation Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Andreia C. Santos

Affiliation Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Deborah Bittencourt Mothe Fraga

Affiliations Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Wildo N. Araujo

Affiliation University of Brasília, Ceilândia, Distrito Federal, Brazil

Carlos Santana

Affiliation Zoonosis Control Center, Brazil Ministry of Health, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

James E. Childs

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Mitermayer G. Reis

Affiliation Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Albert I. Ko

Affiliations Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FC JEC MGR AIK. Performed the experiments: FC GSR RDMF NS RBR ACS DBMF WNA CS. Analyzed the data: FC GSR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MGR AIK. Wrote the paper: FC GSR JEC AIK.