About the Authors

Eric Dumonteil

oliver@correo.uady.mx

Affiliations Laboratorio de Parasitología, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales ‘‘Hideyo Noguchi”, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, México, Department of Tropical Medicine, Vector-Borne Infectious Disease Research Center, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States of America

Claudia Herrera

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Vector-Borne Infectious Disease Research Center, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States of America

Luiggi Martini

Affiliation Laboratorio de Parasitología “L. Martini y colaboradores”, Guayaquil, Ecuador

Mario J. Grijalva

Affiliations Tropical Disease Institute, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, OH, United States of America, Center for Infectious and Chronic Disease Research, School of Biological Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

Angel G. Guevara

Affiliation Centro de Biomedicina, Carrera de Medicina, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

Jaime A. Costales

Affiliation Center for Infectious and Chronic Disease Research, School of Biological Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

H. Marcelo Aguilar

Affiliation Unidad de Salud Pública, Instituto Superior de Investigación y Posgrado, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

S. Frédérique Brenière

Affiliations Center for Infectious and Chronic Disease Research, School of Biological Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, IRD, UMR INTERTRYP (IRD-CIRAD), Interactions hosts-vectors-parasites environment in the tropical neglected disease due to trypanosomatids, TA A-17/G, Campus international de Baillarguet, Montpellier, France

Etienne Waleckx

Affiliation Laboratorio de Parasitología, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales ‘‘Hideyo Noguchi”, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, México

Competing Interests

ED recently published an article about Chagas disease in Ecuador, whose conclusions differ from those reported in the PLOS ONE article.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ED CH LM MJG AGG JAC HMA SFB EW. Analyzed the data: ED CH LM MJG AGG JAC HMA SFB EW. Wrote the paper: ED CH LM MJG AGG JAC HMA SFB EW.