About the Authors

Nuriban Valero-Pacheco

Contributed equally to this work with: Nuriban Valero-Pacheco, Marisol Pérez-Toledo

Affiliations Medical Research Unit on Immunochemistry, Specialties Hospital, National Medical Centre “Siglo XXI”, Mexican Social Security Institute, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico, Departamento de Inmunología, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México, D.F., México

Marisol Pérez-Toledo

Contributed equally to this work with: Nuriban Valero-Pacheco, Marisol Pérez-Toledo

Affiliations Medical Research Unit on Immunochemistry, Specialties Hospital, National Medical Centre “Siglo XXI”, Mexican Social Security Institute, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico, Departamento de Inmunología, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México, D.F., México

Miguel Ángel Villasís-Keever

Affiliation Unidad de Investigación en Epidemiología Clínica, Hospital de Pediatría, Centro Médico Nacional “Siglo XXI”, 
Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, México, D.F., México

Adriana Núñez-Valencia

Affiliation Medical Research Unit on Immunochemistry, Specialties Hospital, National Medical Centre “Siglo XXI”, Mexican Social Security Institute, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico

Ilka Boscó-Gárate

Affiliation Medical Research Unit on Immunochemistry, Specialties Hospital, National Medical Centre “Siglo XXI”, Mexican Social Security Institute, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico

Bernardo Lozano-Dubernard

Affiliation Departamento de Investigación y Desarrollo, Laboratorio Avi-Mex, S.A. de C.V., México, D.F., México

Horacio Lara-Puente

Affiliation Departamento de Investigación y Desarrollo, Laboratorio Avi-Mex, S.A. de C.V., México, D.F., México

Clara Espitia

Affiliation Departamento de Inmunología, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F., México

Celia Alpuche-Aranda

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México

Laura C. Bonifaz

Affiliation Medical Research Unit on Immunochemistry, Specialties Hospital, National Medical Centre “Siglo XXI”, Mexican Social Security Institute, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico

Lourdes Arriaga-Pizano

Affiliation Medical Research Unit on Immunochemistry, Specialties Hospital, National Medical Centre “Siglo XXI”, Mexican Social Security Institute, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico

Rodolfo Pastelin-Palacios

Affiliation Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D.F., México

Armando Isibasi

Affiliation Medical Research Unit on Immunochemistry, Specialties Hospital, National Medical Centre “Siglo XXI”, Mexican Social Security Institute, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico

Constantino López-Macías

constantino@sminmunologia.org

Affiliations Medical Research Unit on Immunochemistry, Specialties Hospital, National Medical Centre “Siglo XXI”, Mexican Social Security Institute, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CLM AI RPP LCB. Performed the experiments: NVP MPT ANV IBG. Analyzed the data: NVP MPT ANV MAVK HLP LCB LAP RPP AI CLM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CE CAA BLD HLP CLM AI. Wrote the paper: NVP MPT CLM.