About the Authors

Andrea K. Boggild

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea K. Boggild, Braulio Mark Valencia

andrea.boggild@utoronto.ca

Affiliation Tropical Disease Unit, Division of Infectious Diseases, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Braulio Mark Valencia

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea K. Boggild, Braulio Mark Valencia

Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical “Alexander von Humboldt”, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), Lima, Peru

Nicolas Veland

Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical “Alexander von Humboldt”, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), Lima, Peru

Ana Pilar Ramos

Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical “Alexander von Humboldt”, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), Lima, Peru

Flor Calderon

Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Tropical “Alexander von Humboldt”, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), Lima, Peru

Jorge Arevalo

Affiliations Instituto de Medicina Tropical “Alexander von Humboldt”, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), Lima, Peru, Departamento de Bioquimica, Biologia Molecular y Farmacologia, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), Lima, Peru

Donald E. Low

Affiliations Laboratories Branch, Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, Etobicoke, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Alejandro Llanos-Cuentas

Affiliations Instituto de Medicina Tropical “Alexander von Humboldt”, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), Lima, Peru, Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AKB BMV APR NV JA. Performed the experiments: AKB BMV APR FC NV. Analyzed the data: AKB BMV APR FC NV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AKB JA DEL ALC. Wrote the paper: AKB NV. Contributed to data collection and were responsible for enrolling patients: BMV APR FC. Critically appraised the manuscript: AKB BMV APR FC NV JA DEL ALC.