About the Authors

Livia Melo Villar

Contributed equally to this work with: Livia Melo Villar, Bruno Geloneze, Ana Carolina Junqueira Vasques, Maria Lucia Elias Pires, Elisabeth Lampe

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

lvillar@ioc.fiocruz.br

Affiliation Laboratory of Viral Hepatitis, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

Bruno Geloneze

Contributed equally to this work with: Livia Melo Villar, Bruno Geloneze, Ana Carolina Junqueira Vasques, Maria Lucia Elias Pires, Elisabeth Lampe

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Investigation in Metabolism and Diabetes (LIMED), Gastrocentro, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Ana Carolina Junqueira Vasques

Contributed equally to this work with: Livia Melo Villar, Bruno Geloneze, Ana Carolina Junqueira Vasques, Maria Lucia Elias Pires, Elisabeth Lampe

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratory of Investigation in Metabolism and Diabetes (LIMED), Gastrocentro, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil, School of Applied Sciences, University of Campinas, Limeira, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Maria Lucia Elias Pires

Contributed equally to this work with: Livia Melo Villar, Bruno Geloneze, Ana Carolina Junqueira Vasques, Maria Lucia Elias Pires, Elisabeth Lampe

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Medicine of Surgery and Medicine School, Federal University of State of Rio de Janeiro/UNIRIO, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

Juliana Custódio Miguel

Roles Investigation, Methodology

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Laboratory of Viral Hepatitis, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

Elisangela Ferreira da Silva

Roles Investigation, Methodology

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Laboratory of Viral Hepatitis, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

Vanessa Alves Marques

Roles Investigation, Methodology

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Laboratory of Viral Hepatitis, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

Leticia de Paula Scalioni

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Laboratory of Viral Hepatitis, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

Elisabeth Lampe

Contributed equally to this work with: Livia Melo Villar, Bruno Geloneze, Ana Carolina Junqueira Vasques, Maria Lucia Elias Pires, Elisabeth Lampe

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Viral Hepatitis, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.