About the Authors
- Diana Espadinha
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Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica (ITQB), Oeiras, Portugal
- Nuno A. Faria
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Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica (ITQB), Oeiras, Portugal
- Maria Miragaia
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Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica (ITQB), Oeiras, Portugal
- Luís Marques Lito
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Affiliation Serviço de Patologia Clínica, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte, Lisboa, Portugal
- José Melo-Cristino
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Affiliations Serviço de Patologia Clínica, Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte, Lisboa, Portugal, Instituto de Microbiologia, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
- Hermínia de Lencastre
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* E-mail: lencash@mail.rockfeller.edu.
Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica (ITQB), Oeiras, Portugal, Laboratory of Microbiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, United States of America
- Médicos Sentinela Network
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¶Membership of the “Médicos Sentinela Network” is provided in the Acknowledgments
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Revised the manuscript: HdL MM NF. Conceived and designed the experiments: NF MM LML JMC HdL. Performed the experiments: DE. Analyzed the data: NF MM HdL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DE NF MM LML JMC HdL. Wrote the paper: DE.