About the Authors

Kátia Luz Torres

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Saúde da Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Manaus, Amazonas/Brazil, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Imunologia Básica e Aplicada da Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Manaus, Amazonas/Brazil, Fundação Centro de Oncologia do Estado do Amazonas (FCECON), Manaus, Amazonas/Brazil

Josiane Montanho Mariño

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Universidade Federal do Amazonas—UFAM, Coari, Amazonas/Brazil

Danielle Albuquerque Pires Rocha

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Saúde da Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Manaus, Amazonas/Brazil, Universidade Federal do Amazonas—UFAM, Coari, Amazonas/Brazil

Mônica Bandeira de Mello

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Fundação Centro de Oncologia do Estado do Amazonas (FCECON), Manaus, Amazonas/Brazil

Heydy Halanna de Melo Farah

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Programa de Pós-Graduação em Imunologia Básica e Aplicada da Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Manaus, Amazonas/Brazil

Renato dos Santos Reis

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Universidade Federal do Amazonas—UFAM, Coari, Amazonas/Brazil

Valquíria do Carmo Rodrigues Alves

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Programa de Pós-Graduação em Imunologia Básica e Aplicada da Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Manaus, Amazonas/Brazil, Fundação Centro de Oncologia do Estado do Amazonas (FCECON), Manaus, Amazonas/Brazil

Edson Gomes

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Laboratório Sebastião Marinho, Manaus, Amazonas/Brazil

Toni Ricardo Martins

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo/Brazil

Ana Carolina Soares

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo/Brazil

Cristina Mendes de Oliveira

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

Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo/Brazil

José Eduardo Levi

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

dudilevi@usp.br

Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo/Brazil

Competing Interests

JE Levi has received travel support from Arbor Vita Corporation, research support in the form of equipment and reagents from BD and speakers fee from Roche Diagnostics in the last 5 years. Other authors do not have any potential conflict of interest to disclose.