About the Authors

Pedro Cecílio

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Parasite Disease group, Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (i3S), Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, IBMC—Instituto de Biologia Celular e Molecular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Begoña Pérez-Cabezas

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Parasite Disease group, Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (i3S), Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, IBMC—Instituto de Biologia Celular e Molecular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Laura Fernández

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

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Leishmaniasis, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Javier Moreno

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Leishmaniasis, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Eugenia Carrillo

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

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Leishmaniasis, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

José M. Requena

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa (CSIC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Epifanio Fichera

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Etna Biotech S.R.L, via Vincenzo Lancia, 57—Zona Industriale Blocco Palma 1, Catania, Italy

Steven G. Reed

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI), Seattle, WA, United States of America

Rhea N. Coler

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI), Seattle, WA, United States of America

Shaden Kamhawi

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vector Molecular Biology Section, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, NIAID, NIH, Rockville, MD, United States of America

Fabiano Oliveira

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vector Molecular Biology Section, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, NIAID, NIH, Rockville, MD, United States of America

Jesus G. Valenzuela

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vector Molecular Biology Section, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, NIAID, NIH, Rockville, MD, United States of America

Luigi Gradoni

Roles Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Unit of Vector-borne Diseases and International Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Reinhard Glueck

Roles Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Etna Biotech S.R.L, via Vincenzo Lancia, 57—Zona Industriale Blocco Palma 1, Catania, Italy

Gaurav Gupta

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Etna Biotech S.R.L, via Vincenzo Lancia, 57—Zona Industriale Blocco Palma 1, Catania, Italy

Anabela Cordeiro-da-Silva

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

cordeiro@ibmc.up.pt

Affiliations Parasite Disease group, Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (i3S), Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, IBMC—Instituto de Biologia Celular e Molecular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.