About the Authors

Giovane R. Sousa

giovane.sousa@gmail.com

Current address: Section on Immunobiology, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America.

Affiliation Postgraduate Course of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Juliana A. S. Gomes

Affiliations Postgraduate Course of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, Laboratory of Cell-Cell Interactions, Department of Morphology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Marcos Paulo S. Damasio

Current address: Division of Cell Signalling and Immunology, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom.

Affiliation Laboratory of Cell-Cell Interactions, Department of Morphology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Maria Carmo P. Nunes

Affiliation Postgraduate Course of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Henrique S. Costa

Affiliation Postgraduate Course of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Nayara I. Medeiros

Affiliation Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Rafaelle C. G. Fares

Current address: United States Food and Drug Administration, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States of America.

Affiliation Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Ana Thereza Chaves

Affiliation Postgraduate Course of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Rodrigo Corrêa-Oliveira

Affiliations Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, FIOCRUZ, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, National Institutes of Science and Technology Tropical Diseases (INCT-DT), Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Manoel Otávio C. Rocha

Affiliation Postgraduate Course of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MOCR RCO. Data curation: GRS. Formal analysis: GRS MPSD. Funding acquisition: JASG RCO. Investigation: GRS MPSD MCPN. Project administration: MOCR. Resources: JASG RCO MCPN MOCR. Supervision: MOCR. Visualization: GRS MPSD HSC NIM RCGF ATC. Writing – original draft: GRS MPSD. Writing – review & editing: GRS MPSD MCPN RCO MOCR.