About the Authors

Herbert Guimaraes de Sousa Silva

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Laboratório Ciclo Celular, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil, Departamento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia, Escola Paulista de Medicina da Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, Ithaca, United States of America

Janaina de Freitas Nascimento

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratório de Bioquímica de Tryps – LaBTryps, Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas - Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Marilene Souza Braga

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Laboratório de Bioquímica de Tryps – LaBTryps, Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas - Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Ana Paula de Jesus Menezes

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Laboratório Ciclo Celular, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil

Ariel M. Silber

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation

Affiliation Laboratório de Bioquímica de Tryps – LaBTryps, Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas - Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Matthew K. Waldor

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, United States of America

Julia Pinheiro Chagas da Cunha

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Pinheiro Chagas da Cunha, Satoshi Kimura

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* julia.cunha@butantan.gov.br (JPCC); skimura@cornell.edu (SK)

Affiliations Laboratório Ciclo Celular, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil, Departamento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia, Escola Paulista de Medicina da Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Laboratório de Bioquímica de Tryps – LaBTryps, Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas - Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Satoshi Kimura

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Pinheiro Chagas da Cunha, Satoshi Kimura

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

* julia.cunha@butantan.gov.br (JPCC); skimura@cornell.edu (SK)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, Ithaca, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.