About the Authors

Allex Jardim Fonseca

allex.j.fonseca@gmail.com

Affiliations Postgraduate Program in Tropical Medicine, Tropical Medicine Foundation Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, Department of Health Sciences Research, Universidade Federal de Roraima, Boa Vista, Brazil

Daniela Taeko

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences Research, Universidade Federal de Roraima, Boa Vista, Brazil

Thiciane Araújo Chaves

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences Research, Universidade Federal de Roraima, Boa Vista, Brazil

Lucia Dayanny da Costa Amorim

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences Research, Universidade Federal de Roraima, Boa Vista, Brazil

Raisa Saron Wanderley Murari

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences Research, Universidade Federal de Roraima, Boa Vista, Brazil

Angélica Espinosa Miranda

Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Maruípe, Vitoria, Brazil

Zigui Chen

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, United States of America

Robert David Burk

‡ These authors are co-senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Women’s Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, United States of America

Luiz Carlos Lima Ferreira

‡ These authors are co-senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Tropical Pathology, Tropical Medicine Foundation Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AJF DT TAC LDCA RSWM AEM RDB LCLF. Performed the experiments: AJF ZC. Analyzed the data: AJF AEM RDB LCLF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AJF ZC. Wrote the paper: AJF ZC RDB LCLF.