About the Authors

Eugenia Carrillo

ecarrillo@isciii.es

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Leishmaniasis, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Mª Angeles Jimenez

Affiliation Departamento Medicina y Cirugía Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Carmen Sanchez

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Leishmaniasis, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Joana Cunha

Affiliation Instituto de Biología Molecular e Celular, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar e Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Camila Marinelli Martins

Affiliation Departamento Medicina Veterinária Preventiva e Saúde Animal, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Anaiá da Paixão Sevá

Affiliation Departamento Medicina Veterinária Preventiva e Saúde Animal, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Javier Moreno

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for Leishmaniasis, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EC JM. Performed the experiments: EC CS JC APS MAJ. Analyzed the data: EC APS JC JM CMM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EC CS APS MAJ CMM. Wrote the paper: EC MAJ JC.