About the Authors

Bruno Jorge de Andrade Silva

Contributed equally to this work with: Bruno Jorge de Andrade Silva, Mayara Garcia de Mattos Barbosa

Affiliation Leprosy Laboratory; Oswaldo Cruz Institute; Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, FIOCRUZ; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Mayara Garcia de Mattos Barbosa

Contributed equally to this work with: Bruno Jorge de Andrade Silva, Mayara Garcia de Mattos Barbosa

Affiliation Leprosy Laboratory; Oswaldo Cruz Institute; Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, FIOCRUZ; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Priscila Ribeiro Andrade

Affiliation Leprosy Laboratory; Oswaldo Cruz Institute; Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, FIOCRUZ; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Helen Ferreira

Affiliation Leprosy Laboratory; Oswaldo Cruz Institute; Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, FIOCRUZ; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

José Augusto da Costa Nery

Affiliation Leprosy Laboratory; Oswaldo Cruz Institute; Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, FIOCRUZ; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Suzana Côrte-Real

Affiliation Structural Biology Laboratory; Oswaldo Cruz Institute; Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, FIOCRUZ; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Gilberto Marcelo Sperandio da Silva

Affiliation Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectology; FIOCRUZ; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Patricia Sammarco Rosa

Affiliation Laboratory Animal House; Lauro de Souza Lima Institute; São Paulo, Brazil

Mario Fabri

Affiliations Department of Dermatology; University of Cologne; Cologne, Germany, Center for Molecular Medicine; University of Cologne; Cologne, Germany

Euzenir Nunes Sarno

Affiliation Leprosy Laboratory; Oswaldo Cruz Institute; Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, FIOCRUZ; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Roberta Olmo Pinheiro

rolmo@ioc.fiocruz.br

Affiliation Leprosy Laboratory; Oswaldo Cruz Institute; Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, FIOCRUZ; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ROP. Formal analysis: BJdAS GMSdS. Funding acquisition: ENS ROP. Investigation: BJdAS MGdMB PRA HF SCR GMSdS PSR. Methodology: ROP BJdAS. Project administration: ENS ROP. Resources: JAdCN SCR PSR MF ENS. Software: GMSdS. Supervision: ENS ROP. Validation: ROP. Visualization: BJdAS MGdMB ROP. Writing – original draft: BJdAS ROP. Writing – review & editing: BJdAS MGdMB MF ENS ROP.