Molecular characterization of viruses associated with encephalitis in São Paulo, Brazil

• Jerenice E. Ferreira ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jerenice E. Ferreira, Suzete C. Ferreira

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

  * E-mail: jerenice.ferreira@gmail.com

  Affiliations LIM / 46—Laboratory of Medical Parasitology, Institute of Tropical Medicine—IMT, University of São Paulo Medical School USP, São Paulo, Brazil, Pathology Center, Adolf Lutz Institute–IAL, São Paulo, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9729-9154

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• Suzete C. Ferreira ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jerenice E. Ferreira, Suzete C. Ferreira

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

  Affiliation Fundação Pró-Sangue Hemocentro de São Paulo–FPS/HSP, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Cesar Almeida-Neto ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Fundação Pró-Sangue Hemocentro de São Paulo–FPS/HSP, São Paulo, Brazil, Disciplina de Ciências Médicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Anna S. Nishiya,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Fundação Pró-Sangue Hemocentro de São Paulo–FPS/HSP, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Cecilia S. Alencar,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations Central Laboratory Division—Hospital das Clínicas São Paulo–DLC-HCSP, Clinical Laboratory and LIM 03–Department of Pathology, Clinical Hospital, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Gisele R. Gouveia,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo–FMUSP, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Helio Caiaffa-Filho,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations Pathology Center, Adolf Lutz Institute–IAL, São Paulo, Brazil, Central Laboratory Division—Hospital das Clínicas São Paulo–DLC-HCSP

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• Helio Gomes,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Validation

  Affiliations Central Laboratory Division—Hospital das Clínicas São Paulo–DLC-HCSP, Clinical Laboratory and LIM 03–Department of Pathology, Clinical Hospital, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Raimunda Telma de Macedo Santos,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Pathology Center, Adolf Lutz Institute–IAL, São Paulo, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3798-9273

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• Steven S. Witkin ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Alfredo Mendrone-Junior,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Fundação Pró-Sangue Hemocentro de São Paulo–FPS/HSP, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Ester C. Sabino

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation LIM / 46—Laboratory of Medical Parasitology, Institute of Tropical Medicine—IMT, University of São Paulo Medical School USP, São Paulo, Brazil

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