About the Authors

Tomas Maria Perez-Porcuna

Contributed equally to this work with: Tomas Maria Perez-Porcuna, Hélio Doyle Pereira-da-Silva

rabellana@ub.edu (RA); tomas.perez.porcuna@gmail.com (TPP)

Affiliations Departament de Salut Pública, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain, Servei de Pediatria, CAP Valldoreix, Unitat de Investigació Fundació Mútua Terrassa, Hospital Universitari Mútua Terrassa, Terrassa, Catalunya, Spain

Hélio Doyle Pereira-da-Silva

Contributed equally to this work with: Tomas Maria Perez-Porcuna, Hélio Doyle Pereira-da-Silva

Affiliation Departament de Salut Pública, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

Carlos Ascaso

Affiliations Departament de Salut Pública, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

Adriana Malheiro

Affiliations Laboratório Multidisciplinar - Fundação de Hematologia e Hemoterapia do Amazonas, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

Samira Bührer

Affiliation Instituto de Patologia Tropical e Saúde Pública, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil

Flor Martinez-Espinosa

Affiliations Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado (FMT-HVD), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane - Fiocruz Amazônia, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

Rosa Abellana

rabellana@ub.edu (RA); tomas.perez.porcuna@gmail.com (TPP)

Affiliation Departament de Salut Pública, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RA TPP HDP CA. Formal analysis: RA HDP. Funding acquisition: RA TPP HDP CA AM SB FME. Investigation: TPP AM SB FME CA. Methodology: RA TPP HDP CA AM SB FME. Project administration: RA TPP. Resources: RA TPP HDP CA AM SB FME. Software: RA HDP CA. Supervision: RA TPP. Validation: RA TPP CA. Writing – original draft: RA TPP HDP. Writing – review & editing: RA TPP HDP CA AM SB FME.