About the Authors

Creuza Rachel Vicente

vicentecrachel@gmail.com

Affiliation Center for International Health, Medical Center of the University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany

Karl-Heinz Herbinger

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical Center of the University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany

Crispim Cerutti Junior

Affiliation Department of Social Medicine, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil

Camila Malta Romano

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, LIM-52 (LIMHC), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Aline de Souza Areias Cabidelle

Affiliation Coordination of Epidemiological Surveillance, Department of Health, Vitória, Brazil

Günter Fröschl

Affiliations Center for International Health, Medical Center of the University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Medical Center of the University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CRV CCJ KHH CMR ASAC GF. Data curation: CRV. Formal analysis: CRV. Funding acquisition: CRV CCJ GF. Investigation: CRV CCJ ASAC. Methodology: CRV CCJ KHH CMR ASAC GF. Project administration: CRV CCJ KHH CMR GF. Resources: CRV CCJ ASAC. Supervision: CRV CCJ KHH CMR GF. Validation: CRV CCJ KHH CMR GF. Visualization: CRV. Writing – original draft: CRV. Writing – review & editing: CRV CCJ KHH CMR ASAC GF.