About the Authors

Ana Elvira Farfán-García

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

afarfan@udes.edu.co

Affiliations Facultad de Ciencias Médicas y de la Salud, Instituto de Investigaciones Masira, Universidad de Santander, Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia, Corporación de Ciencias Básicas Biomédicas, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia

Indira Paola Hernández-Peñaranda

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

Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Naturales y Agropecuarias, Universidad de Santander, Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia

Oscar G. Gómez-Duarte

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Levine Children’s Hospital at Advantage Health and Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Edgar Javier Rincón-Barón

Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Facultad de Ciencias Médicas y de la Salud, Instituto de Investigaciones Masira, Universidad de Santander, Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Naturales y Agropecuarias, Universidad de Santander, Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia

Gerardo Andrés Torres-Rodríguez

Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Unidad de Microscopía Electrónica, Universidad del Cauca, Popayán, Cauca, Colombia

Johanna Marcela Flórez-Castillo

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

Current Address: Universidad del Magdalena, Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia.

Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Naturales y Agropecuarias, Universidad de Santander, Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.