About the Authors

Juan C. Hernandez

Affiliation INFETTARE, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Medellin, Colombia

Diana M. Giraldo

Affiliation Grupo Inmunovirología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia

Stephane Paul

Affiliation GIMAP EA3064, Faculté de Medicine de Saint Etienne, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France

Silvio Urcuqui-Inchima

silviourcuqui@gmail.com

Affiliation Grupo Inmunovirología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JCH SUI. Performed the experiments: JCH DG SUI. Analyzed the data: JCH SUI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JCH DG SUI. Wrote the paper: JCH SP SUI. Acquisition, analysis and interpretation of data for the work: JCH DG SUI. Drafting the work: JCH DG SP SUI. Approval of manuscript for publication: JCH DG SP SUI.