About the Authors

Andrés Alloatti

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrés Alloatti, Shreedhara Gupta

Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario, CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina

Shreedhara Gupta

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrés Alloatti, Shreedhara Gupta

Affiliation Research Unit for Tropical Diseases, Laboratory of Biochemistry and de Duve Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

Melisa Gualdrón-López

Affiliation Research Unit for Tropical Diseases, Laboratory of Biochemistry and de Duve Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

Mariana Igoillo-Esteve

Affiliation Research Unit for Tropical Diseases, Laboratory of Biochemistry and de Duve Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

Paul A. Nguewa

Affiliation Research Unit for Tropical Diseases, Laboratory of Biochemistry and de Duve Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

Gladys Deumer

Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, LTAP, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

Pierre Wallemacq

Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, LTAP, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

Silvia G. Altabe

Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario, CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina

Paul A. M. Michels

Affiliation Research Unit for Tropical Diseases, Laboratory of Biochemistry and de Duve Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

Antonio D. Uttaro

toniuttaro@yahoo.com.ar

Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario, CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PAM ADU. Performed the experiments: AA SG MGL MIE PAN GD SGA. Analyzed the data: AA SG SGA PAM ADU. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PW SGA PAM ADU. Wrote the paper: PAM ADU.