About the Authors

Tulio Machado Fumian

Contributed equally to this work with: Tulio Machado Fumian, Juliana da Silva Ribeiro de Andrade

tuliomf@ioc.fiocruz.br

Affiliation Laboratory of Comparative and Environmental Virology, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Juliana da Silva Ribeiro de Andrade

Contributed equally to this work with: Tulio Machado Fumian, Juliana da Silva Ribeiro de Andrade

Affiliation Laboratory of Comparative and Environmental Virology, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

José Paulo Gagliardi Leite

Affiliation Laboratory of Comparative and Environmental Virology, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Marize Pereira Miagostovich

Affiliation Laboratory of Comparative and Environmental Virology, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TMF JSRA JPGL MPM. Performed the experiments: TMF JSRA. Analyzed the data: TMF JSRA JPGL MPM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TMF JSRA JPGL MPM. Wrote the paper: TMF JSRA JPGL MPM.