About the Authors

Lucas Christian de Sousa-Paula

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

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

Lidiane Gomes da Silva

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro Universitário do Vale do Ipojuca (UNIFAVIP/Wyden), Caruaru, Pernambuco, Brazil

Kamila Gaudêncio da Silva Sales

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Filipe Dantas-Torres

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

filipe.dantas@cpqam.fiocruz, fdtvet@gmail.com

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

Competing Interests

FDT has received funding from Bayer Animal Health to conduct a clinical trial to access the efficacy of flumethrin plus imidacloprid collar in preventing vector-borne pathogen infections on dogs in Brazil. He also received honoraria for talks in scientific meetings organized by Bayer Animal Health and Boehringer Ingelheim.