About the Authors

Filipe Dantas-Torres

filipe.dantas@cpqam.fiocruz.br

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Aggeu Magalhães Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Kamila Gaudêncio da Silva Sales

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Aggeu Magalhães Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Débora Elienai de Oliveira Miranda

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Aggeu Magalhães Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Fernando José da Silva

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Aggeu Magalhães Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Luciana Aguiar Figueredo

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Aggeu Magalhães Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Fábio Lopes de Melo

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Aggeu Magalhães Research Center, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Maria Edileuza Felinto de Brito

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Aggeu Magalhães Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Maria Sandra Andrade

Affiliation Department of Nursing, University of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Sinval Pinto Brandão-Filho

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Aggeu Magalhães Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: FDT. Formal analysis: FDT. Funding acquisition: FDT SPBF. Investigation: FDT KGdSS DEdOM FJdS MEFdB MSA FLdM. Methodology: FDT. Project administration: FDT SPBF. Supervision: SPBF. Visualization: FDT. Writing – original draft: FDT. Writing – review & editing: LAF SPBF.