About the Authors

Rubens Alex de Oliveira Menezes

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ra-menezes@hotmail.com

Affiliations Postgraduate Program in the Biology of Infectious and Parasitic Agents, Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Belém, Pará State, Brazil, Laboratory of morphofunctional and parasitic studies with impact on health (LEMPIS), Federal University of Amapá (UNIFAP), Macapa, Amapá State, Brazil

Margarete do Socorro Mendonça Gomes

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Amapá State Secretary of Health (SESA)/Amapá Central Laboratory, Macapá, Amapá state, Brazil

Anapaula Martins Mendes

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation UNIFAP/Oiapoque Binational Campus, Federal University of Amapá, Oiapoque, Amapá State, Brazil

Álvaro Augusto Ribeiro D’ Almeida Couto

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Amapá State Secretary of Health (SESA)/Amapá Central Laboratory, Macapá, Amapá state, Brazil

Mathieu Nacher

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Centre d’Investigation Clinique, CIC INSERM 1424, Centre Hospitalier de Cayenne, Cayenne, French Guiana

Tamirys Simão Pimenta

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Postgraduate Program in Neuroscience and Cell Biology, UFPA, Belém, Pará State, Brazil, Evandro Chagas Institute/Brazilian Secretariat of Health Surveillance (SVS)/Brazilian Ministry of Health (MS), Ananindeua, Pará State, Brazil

Aline Collares Pinheiro de Sousa

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Evandro Chagas Institute/Brazilian Secretariat of Health Surveillance (SVS)/Brazilian Ministry of Health (MS), Ananindeua, Pará State, Brazil

Andrea Regina de Souza Baptista

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Fluminense Federal University, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

Maria Izabel de Jesus

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Evandro Chagas Institute/Brazilian Secretariat of Health Surveillance (SVS)/Brazilian Ministry of Health (MS), Ananindeua, Pará State, Brazil

Martin Johannes Enk

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Evandro Chagas Institute/Brazilian Secretariat of Health Surveillance (SVS)/Brazilian Ministry of Health (MS), Ananindeua, Pará State, Brazil

Maristela Gomes Cunha

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Postgraduate Program in the Biology of Infectious and Parasitic Agents, Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Belém, Pará State, Brazil, Laboratory of Microbiology and Immunology, Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Belém, Pará State, Brazil

Ricardo Luiz Dantas Machado

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Postgraduate Program in the Biology of Infectious and Parasitic Agents, Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Belém, Pará State, Brazil, Evandro Chagas Institute/Brazilian Secretariat of Health Surveillance (SVS)/Brazilian Ministry of Health (MS), Ananindeua, Pará State, Brazil, Fluminense Federal University, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.