About the Authors

Andrea Cristine Koishi

Affiliations Programa de Pós-graduação em Biologia Celular e Molecular, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, Laboratório de Virologia Molecular, Instituto Carlos Chagas (ICC–FIOCRUZ/PR), Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Paula Rodrigues Zanello

Affiliation Laboratório de Virologia Molecular, Instituto Carlos Chagas (ICC–FIOCRUZ/PR), Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Éverson Miguel Bianco

Current address: Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

Affiliation Programa de Pós-graduação em Química, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Juliano Bordignon

clsantos@tecpar.br (CNDDS); jbordig@tecpar.br (JB)

Affiliation Laboratório de Virologia Molecular, Instituto Carlos Chagas (ICC–FIOCRUZ/PR), Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Claudia Nunes Duarte dos Santos

clsantos@tecpar.br (CNDDS); jbordig@tecpar.br (JB)

Affiliation Laboratório de Virologia Molecular, Instituto Carlos Chagas (ICC–FIOCRUZ/PR), Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ACK PRZ JB CNDDS. Performed the experiments: ACK PRZ. Analyzed the data: ACK PRZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JB CNDDS. Wrote the paper: ACK EMB JB CNDDS. Collected and obtained the seaweed extracts: EMB.