About the Authors

Marco Antonio Prates Nielebock

Contributed equally to this work with: Marco Antonio Prates Nielebock, Otacílio C. Moreira

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

Affiliation Clinical Research Laboratory in Chagas Disease, Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Otacílio C. Moreira

Contributed equally to this work with: Marco Antonio Prates Nielebock, Otacílio C. Moreira

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular Biology and Endemic Diseases Laboratory, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Samanta Cristina das Chagas Xavier

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Trypanosomatid Biology Laboratory, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Luciana de Freitas Campos Miranda

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

Affiliation Leishmaniasis Surveillance Laboratory, Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Ana Carolina Bastos de Lima

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular Biology and Endemic Diseases Laboratory, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Thayanne Oliveira de Jesus Sales Pereira

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Research Laboratory in Chagas Disease, Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Alejandro Marcel Hasslocher-Moreno

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Research Laboratory in Chagas Disease, Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Constança Britto

Roles Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular Biology and Endemic Diseases Laboratory, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Luiz Henrique Conde Sangenis

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

Affiliation Clinical Research Laboratory in Chagas Disease, Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Roberto Magalhães Saraiva

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

roberto.saraiva@ini.fiocruz.br

Affiliation Clinical Research Laboratory in Chagas Disease, Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.