About the Authors

Marcelo Santos da Silva

marcelo.dsilva@butantan.gov.br (MSdS); richard.mcculloch@glasgow.ac.uk (RM)

Affiliations Laboratório Especial de Ciclo Celular, Center of Toxins, Immune Response and Cell Signaling (CeTICS), Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil, The Wellcome Centre for Molecular Parasitology, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Galadriel A. Hovel-Miner

Affiliation The George Washington University, Department of Microbiology Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, Washington, DC, United States of America

Emma M. Briggs

Affiliation The Wellcome Centre for Molecular Parasitology, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Maria Carolina Elias

Affiliation Laboratório Especial de Ciclo Celular, Center of Toxins, Immune Response and Cell Signaling (CeTICS), Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil

Richard McCulloch

marcelo.dsilva@butantan.gov.br (MSdS); richard.mcculloch@glasgow.ac.uk (RM)

Affiliation The Wellcome Centre for Molecular Parasitology, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.