About the Authors

Nasir Ali

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Instituto de Biologia Molecular do Paraná (IBMP), Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, Departamento de Engenharia de Bioprocessos e Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Graziele Lima Bello

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centro de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Secretaria Estadual de Saúde, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul (RS), Brazil, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Celular e Molecular Aplicado à Saúde (PPGBiosaúde), Universidade Luterana do Brasil, Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Maria Lúcia Rosa Rossetti

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

Affiliations Centro de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Secretaria Estadual de Saúde, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul (RS), Brazil, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Celular e Molecular Aplicado à Saúde (PPGBiosaúde), Universidade Luterana do Brasil, Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Marco Aurelio Krieger

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Instituto de Biologia Molecular do Paraná (IBMP), Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, Departamento de Engenharia de Bioprocessos e Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, Instituto Carlos Chagas (ICC), Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Alexandre Dias Tavares Costa

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

alexandre.costa@fiocruz.br

Affiliations Instituto de Biologia Molecular do Paraná (IBMP), Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, Instituto Carlos Chagas (ICC), Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Competing Interests

Instituto de Biologia Molecular do Paraná (IBMP) produces the PCR mastermix used in the qPCR experiments, and NA, MAK, and ADTC are associated with IBMP. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.