About the Authors

Paola Castillo

Affiliation ISGlobal, Barcelona Ctr. Int. Health Res. (CRESIB), Hospital Clínic-Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Esperança Ussene

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Maputo Central Hospital, Maputo, Mozambique

Mamudo R. Ismail

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Maputo Central Hospital, Maputo, Mozambique

Dercio Jordao

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Maputo Central Hospital, Maputo, Mozambique

Lucilia Lovane

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Maputo Central Hospital, Maputo, Mozambique

Carla Carrilho

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Maputo Central Hospital, Maputo, Mozambique

Cesaltina Lorenzoni

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Maputo Central Hospital, Maputo, Mozambique

Marcus V. Lacerda

Affiliation Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Viera Dourado, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

Antonio Palhares

Affiliation Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Viera Dourado, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

Leonardo Rodríguez-Carunchio

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Hospital Clinic, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

Miguel J. Martínez

Affiliations ISGlobal, Barcelona Ctr. Int. Health Res. (CRESIB), Hospital Clínic-Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Department of Microbiology, Hospital Clinic, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

Jordi Vila

Affiliations ISGlobal, Barcelona Ctr. Int. Health Res. (CRESIB), Hospital Clínic-Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Department of Microbiology, Hospital Clinic, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

Quique Bassat

Affiliations ISGlobal, Barcelona Ctr. Int. Health Res. (CRESIB), Hospital Clínic-Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça, (CISM), Maputo, Mozambique

Clara Menéndez

Affiliations ISGlobal, Barcelona Ctr. Int. Health Res. (CRESIB), Hospital Clínic-Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça, (CISM), Maputo, Mozambique

Jaume Ordi

jordi@clinic.ub.es

Affiliations ISGlobal, Barcelona Ctr. Int. Health Res. (CRESIB), Hospital Clínic-Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Department of Pathology, Hospital Clinic, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM JV QB JO CM CC ML MI. Performed the experiments: PC LL DJ EU AP MI CL LC CC. Analyzed the data: PC JO MM QB CC CM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ML CM JV MM CC QB JO. Wrote the paper: PC EU JO QB CM MM JV.