About the Authors

Laís Amorim Sacramento

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

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto

Luciana Benevides

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Fiocruz-Bi-Institutional Translational Medicine Project, Brazil

Sandra Regina Maruyama

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Center for Biological and Health Sciences, Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil

Lucas Tavares

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

Kiyoshi Ferreira Fukutani

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto

Marcela Francozo

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Institute of Infection Immunology, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research (Twincore), Hannover Medical School (MHH) and Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Hannover, Germany

Tim Sparwasser

Roles Resources

Affiliations Institute of Infection Immunology, Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research (Twincore), Hannover Medical School (MHH) and Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Hannover, Germany, Department of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Fernando Queiroz Cunha

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

Roque Pacheco Almeida

Roles Resources

Affiliation Center for Biology and Health Sciences, Federal University of Sergipe, Aracaju, SE, Brazil

João Santana da Silva

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Fiocruz-Bi-Institutional Translational Medicine Project, Brazil

Vanessa Carregaro

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

vcarregaro@usp.br, vcarregaro@fmrp.usp.br

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.