About the Authors

Gabriel Sylvestre

Affiliation Laboratório de Transmissores de Hematozoários, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Mariana Gandini

Affiliation Laboratório de Imunologia Viral, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - Fiocruz, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Rafael Maciel-de-Freitas

freitas@ioc.fiocruz.br

Affiliation Laboratório de Transmissores de Hematozoários, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RMF GS. Performed the experiments: MG RMF. Analyzed the data: GS RMF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MG RMF. Wrote the paper: GS MG RMF.