About the Authors

Hareton Teixeira Vechi

Contributed equally to this work with: Hareton Teixeira Vechi, Mônica Baumgardt Bay, Kenio Costa de Lima

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

haretonvechi@gmail.com

Affiliations Institute of Tropical Medicine of Rio Grande do Norte, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, Multicampi School of Medical Sciences, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Caicó, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Mônica Baumgardt Bay

Contributed equally to this work with: Hareton Teixeira Vechi, Mônica Baumgardt Bay, Kenio Costa de Lima

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

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Cláudio Henrique Silva de Freitas

Roles Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

‡ CHSF, JGFCS and CB also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine of Rio Grande do Norte, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Júlia Gomes Fernandes Costa de Sant’anna

Roles Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

‡ CHSF, JGFCS and CB also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine of Rio Grande do Norte, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Carlos Brites

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

‡ CHSF, JGFCS and CB also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Hospital Universitário Prof. Edgard Santos, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Kenio Costa de Lima

Contributed equally to this work with: Hareton Teixeira Vechi, Mônica Baumgardt Bay, Kenio Costa de Lima

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

Affiliation Department of Odontology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.