About the Authors

Claudia Cristina Jardim Duarte

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Disease, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Tania Salgado de Sousa Torraca

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Ophtalmology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Débora de Oliveira Bezerra

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Disease, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Renata de Barcelos Oliveira

Roles Data curation, Resources, Visualization

Affiliation Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Disease, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Nayany Kerollyany Sousa Leite

Roles Data curation, Visualization

Affiliation Brazil´s navy, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Raquel de Vasconcellos Carvalhaes de Oliveira

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Disease, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Maria Helena Araújo-Melo

Roles Investigation, Resources, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaringology, Federal University of the Estate of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Maria Inês Fernandes Pimentel

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Disease, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Ananda Dutra da Costa

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

Affiliation Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Disease, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Érica de Camargo Ferreira Vasconcellos

Roles Investigation, Resources, Visualization

Affiliation Medicine School, Souza Marques Technical and Scientific Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Marcelo Rosandiski Lyra

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

Affiliation Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Disease, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Ester Cleisla dos Anjos Soares

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Disease, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Lúcia Regina do Nascimento Brahim Paes

Roles Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Disease, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Mariza Mattos Salgueiro

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Disease, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Armando de Oliveira Schubach

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Disease, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Productivity fellowship holder of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPQ), Brasília, Brazil

Cláudia Maria Valete

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

claudia.valete@ini.fiocruz.br; cmvalete@gmail.com

Affiliations Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Disease, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Ophtalmology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Productivity fellowship holder of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPQ), Brasília, Brazil

Competing Interests

No. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.