About the Authors

Paulo Rufalco-Moutinho

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

paulorufalco@gmail.com

Current address: Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade de Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brasília, Brazil

Affiliation Departamento de Bioestatística, Biologia Vegetal, Parasitologia e Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil

Samir Moura Kadri

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto de Biotecnologia, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil

Diego Peres Alonso

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Instituto de Biotecnologia, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil

Marta Moreno

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Gabriel Carrasco-Escobar

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Laboratorio ICEMR-Amazonia, Laboratorios de Investigacion y Desarrollo, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofia, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

Catharine Prussing

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, State University of New York-Albany, Albany, NY, United States of America, New York State Department of Health, Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY, United States of America

Dionicia Gamboa

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

Affiliations Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Departamento de Ciencias Celulares y Moleculares, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, Instituto de Medicinal Tropical “Alexander von Humboldt”, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

Joseph M. Vinetz

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

Affiliations Laboratorio ICEMR-Amazonia, Laboratorios de Investigacion y Desarrollo, Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofia, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, Instituto de Medicinal Tropical “Alexander von Humboldt”, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America

Maria Anice Mureb Sallum

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Departamento de Epidemiologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Jan E. Conn

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, State University of New York-Albany, Albany, NY, United States of America, New York State Department of Health, Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY, United States of America

Paulo Eduardo Martins Ribolla

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

Affiliations Departamento de Bioestatística, Biologia Vegetal, Parasitologia e Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil, Instituto de Biotecnologia, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.