About the Authors

Martha Thieme Petersen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratório de Transmissores de Hematozoários, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Isabella Dias da Silveira

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratório de Transmissores de Hematozoários, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Aline Tátila-Ferreira

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratório de Transmissores de Hematozoários, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Mariana Rocha David

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratório de Transmissores de Hematozoários, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Thais Chouin-Carneiro

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratório de Transmissores de Hematozoários, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, Laboratório de Imunologia Viral, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Liesbeth Van den Wouwer

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

Affiliation Laboratory for Microbiology, Parasitology and Hygiene (LMPH), University of Antwerp, Belgium

Louis Maes

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory for Microbiology, Parasitology and Hygiene (LMPH), University of Antwerp, Belgium

Rafael Maciel-de-Freitas

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

freitas@ioc.fiocruz.br

Affiliation Laboratório de Transmissores de Hematozoários, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.