About the Authors

Yagahira E. Castro-Sesquen

Current address: Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliations Laboratorio de Investigación en Enfermedades Infecciosas, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America

Robert H. Gilman

rgilman@jhsph.edu

Affiliation Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Carolina Mejia

Affiliation Colectivo de Estudios Aplicados, Desarrollo Social, Salud y Medio Ambiente, Cochabamba, Bolivia

Daniel E. Clark

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Jeong Choi

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Melissa J. Reimer-McAtee

Affiliation Tulane University Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Rosario Castro

Affiliation Servicio de Infectología, Hospital Clínico Viedma, Cochabamba, Bolivia

Edward Valencia-Ayala

Affiliation Laboratorio de Investigación en Enfermedades Infecciosas, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

Jorge Flores

Affiliation Hospital San Juan De Dios, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia

Natalie Bowman

Affiliation School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Ricardo Castillo-Neyra

Affiliation Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Faustino Torrico

Affiliation Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia

Lance Liotta

Affiliation Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America

Caryn Bern

Affiliation Global Health Sciences, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Alessandra Luchini

Affiliation Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine, George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, United States of America

The Chagas/HIV Working Group in Bolivia and Peru

Full membership of the Chagas/HIV Working Group in Bolivia and Peru can be found at the end of the paper.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YECS RHG CB LL AL. Performed the experiments: YECS DEC JC CM MJRM JF RC FT EVA. Analyzed the data: YECS RHG CB RCN LL AL NB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RHG CB LL AL RC FT NB. Wrote the paper: YECS RHG CB DEC JC CM MJRM JF RC FT EVA RCN LL AL NB.