About the Authors

Marcia W. Carneiro

Affiliation Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Brazil

Diego M. Santos

Affiliation Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Brazil

Kiyoshi F. Fukutani

Affiliation Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Brazil

Jorge Clarencio

Affiliation Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Brazil

Jose Carlos Miranda

Affiliation Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Brazil

Claudia Brodskyn

Affiliations Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Brazil, Instituto de Investigação em Imunologia, Salvador, Brazil

Aldina Barral

Affiliations Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Brazil, Instituto de Investigação em Imunologia, Salvador, Brazil

Manoel Barral-Netto

Affiliations Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Brazil, Instituto de Investigação em Imunologia, Salvador, Brazil

Manuel Soto

Affiliation Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Departamento de Biologia Molecular, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Camila I. de Oliveira

camila@bahia.fiocruz.br

Affiliations Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Salvador, Brazil, Instituto de Investigação em Imunologia, Salvador, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MWC DMS MS CIO. Performed the experiments: MWC DMS JC KF JCM. Analyzed the data: MWC DMS KF JC CB AB MBN MS CIO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS AB JCM MS. Wrote the paper: MWC MS CIO.