About the Authors

Deborah G. Smith

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

deborah.smith@lsuhs.edu

Affiliation School of Health Professions and Sciences, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Camila Castro

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Odontologia, Centro Universitário Christus (UNICHRISTUS), Fortaleza, CE, Brazil

Patricia Pichilingue-Reto

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Catherine G. Dean

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Alexandre Malek

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Luis Enrique Espinoza

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.