About the Authors

Zaida Herrador

Contributed equally to this work with: Zaida Herrador, Eva Rivas

zherrador@isciii.es

Affiliations National Centre for Tropical Medicine, Health Institute Carlos III (ISCIII in Spanish), Madrid, Spain, Network Biomedical Research on Tropical Diseases (RICET in Spanish), Madrid, Spain

Eva Rivas

Contributed equally to this work with: Zaida Herrador, Eva Rivas

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, University Hospital Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria, Tenerife, Spain

Alin Gherasim

Affiliation National Centre for Tropical Medicine, Health Institute Carlos III (ISCIII in Spanish), Madrid, Spain

Diana Gomez-Barroso

Affiliation Biomedical Research Centre Network for Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Health Institute Carlos III (ISCIII in Spanish), Madrid, Spain

Jezabel García

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, University Hospital Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria, Tenerife, Spain

Agustín Benito

Affiliations National Centre for Tropical Medicine, Health Institute Carlos III (ISCIII in Spanish), Madrid, Spain, Network Biomedical Research on Tropical Diseases (RICET in Spanish), Madrid, Spain

Pilar Aparicio

Affiliations National Centre for Tropical Medicine, Health Institute Carlos III (ISCIII in Spanish), Madrid, Spain, Network Biomedical Research on Tropical Diseases (RICET in Spanish), Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZH ER PA JG AB. Analyzed the data: ZH ER AG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AG DGB. Wrote the paper: ZH ER AG. Revised the work critically for important intellectual content: JG PA AB.