About the Authors

Antonio Edson R. Oliveira

Contributed equally to this work with: Antonio Edson R. Oliveira, Milton C. A. Pereira

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Milton C. A. Pereira

Contributed equally to this work with: Antonio Edson R. Oliveira, Milton C. A. Pereira

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Centro de Pesquisas Rene Rachou, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Ashton T. Belew

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics and Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Ludmila R. P. Ferreira

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Departamento de Morfologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Larissa M. N. Pereira

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Centro de Pesquisas Rene Rachou, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Eula G. A. Neves

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Departamento de Morfologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Maria do Carmo P. Nunes

Roles Formal analysis, Resources

Affiliation Departamento de Clínica Médica, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Barbara A. Burleigh

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Walderez O. Dutra

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Morfologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Najib M. El-Sayed

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics and Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Ricardo T. Gazzinelli

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

santuzat@ufmg.br(SMRT); ricardo.gazzinelli@fiocruz.br(RTG)

Affiliations Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, Centro de Pesquisas Rene Rachou, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Santuza M. R. Teixeira

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

santuzat@ufmg.br(SMRT); ricardo.gazzinelli@fiocruz.br(RTG)

Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.