About the Authors

Gláucia Fernandes Cota

Contributed equally to this work with: Gláucia Fernandes Cota, Marcos Roberto de Sousa, Ana Rabello

cota@cpqrr.fiocruz.br

Affiliation Clinical Research and Public Policy in Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Marcos Roberto de Sousa

Contributed equally to this work with: Gláucia Fernandes Cota, Marcos Roberto de Sousa, Ana Rabello

Affiliation Post-Graduate Program in Adult Health Sciences, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Tatiani Oliveira Fereguetti

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Hospital Eduardo de Menezes, Fundação Hospitalar do Estado de Minas Gerais-FHEMIG, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Priscila Said Saleme

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Hospital Eduardo de Menezes, Fundação Hospitalar do Estado de Minas Gerais-FHEMIG, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Thais Kawagoe Alvarisa

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Hospital Eduardo de Menezes, Fundação Hospitalar do Estado de Minas Gerais-FHEMIG, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Ana Rabello

Contributed equally to this work with: Gláucia Fernandes Cota, Marcos Roberto de Sousa, Ana Rabello

Affiliation Clinical Research and Public Policy in Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GFC MRS AR. Performed the experiments: GFC MRS TOF PSS TKA AR. Analyzed the data: GFC MRS TOF PSS TKA AR. Wrote the paper: GFC MRS TOF PSS TKA AR.