About the Authors

Ricardo Coringa

Contributed equally to this work with: Ricardo Coringa, Eduardo Martins de Sousa, Juliana Nunes Botelho, Rafael Soares Diniz, Joicy Cortez de Sá, Maria Carmen Fontoura Nogueira da Cruz, Marco Aurelio Beninni Paschoal, Letícia Machado Gonçalves

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Dentistry, CEUMA University, Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil

Eduardo Martins de Sousa

Contributed equally to this work with: Ricardo Coringa, Eduardo Martins de Sousa, Juliana Nunes Botelho, Rafael Soares Diniz, Joicy Cortez de Sá, Maria Carmen Fontoura Nogueira da Cruz, Marco Aurelio Beninni Paschoal, Letícia Machado Gonçalves

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology of Respiratory Tract Infections, Post-Graduate Program in Parasite Biology, CEUMA University, Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil

Juliana Nunes Botelho

Contributed equally to this work with: Ricardo Coringa, Eduardo Martins de Sousa, Juliana Nunes Botelho, Rafael Soares Diniz, Joicy Cortez de Sá, Maria Carmen Fontoura Nogueira da Cruz, Marco Aurelio Beninni Paschoal, Letícia Machado Gonçalves

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Oral Rehabilitation, University of Talca, Talca, Chile

Rafael Soares Diniz

Contributed equally to this work with: Ricardo Coringa, Eduardo Martins de Sousa, Juliana Nunes Botelho, Rafael Soares Diniz, Joicy Cortez de Sá, Maria Carmen Fontoura Nogueira da Cruz, Marco Aurelio Beninni Paschoal, Letícia Machado Gonçalves

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Dentistry, CEUMA University, Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil

Joicy Cortez de Sá

Contributed equally to this work with: Ricardo Coringa, Eduardo Martins de Sousa, Juliana Nunes Botelho, Rafael Soares Diniz, Joicy Cortez de Sá, Maria Carmen Fontoura Nogueira da Cruz, Marco Aurelio Beninni Paschoal, Letícia Machado Gonçalves

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology of Respiratory Tract Infections, Post-Graduate Program in Parasite Biology, CEUMA University, Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil

Maria Carmen Fontoura Nogueira da Cruz

Contributed equally to this work with: Ricardo Coringa, Eduardo Martins de Sousa, Juliana Nunes Botelho, Rafael Soares Diniz, Joicy Cortez de Sá, Maria Carmen Fontoura Nogueira da Cruz, Marco Aurelio Beninni Paschoal, Letícia Machado Gonçalves

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Dentistry, Federal University of Maranhao, Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil

Marco Aurelio Beninni Paschoal

Contributed equally to this work with: Ricardo Coringa, Eduardo Martins de Sousa, Juliana Nunes Botelho, Rafael Soares Diniz, Joicy Cortez de Sá, Maria Carmen Fontoura Nogueira da Cruz, Marco Aurelio Beninni Paschoal, Letícia Machado Gonçalves

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Dentistry, CEUMA University, Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil

Letícia Machado Gonçalves

Contributed equally to this work with: Ricardo Coringa, Eduardo Martins de Sousa, Juliana Nunes Botelho, Rafael Soares Diniz, Joicy Cortez de Sá, Maria Carmen Fontoura Nogueira da Cruz, Marco Aurelio Beninni Paschoal, Letícia Machado Gonçalves

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology

lets.mg@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Dentistry, CEUMA University, Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.