About the Authors

Simone da Silva Santos

simone@ioc.fiocruz.br

Affiliation Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Pesquisas Médicas, IOC, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Taane G. Clark

Affiliation Faculties of Epidemiology and Population Health and Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Susana Campino

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Martha Cecília Suarez-Mutis

Affiliation Laboratório de Doenças Parasitárias, IOC, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Kirk A. Rockett

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, United Kingdom

Dominic P. Kwiatkowski

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, United Kingdom

Octavio Fernandes

Affiliation Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Pesquisas Médicas, IOC, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SSS KAR OF. Performed the experiments: SSS KAR. Analyzed the data: SSS TGC SC KAR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TGC SC MCSM KAR DPK OF. Wrote the paper: SSS TGC. Discussion of results: SSS TGC SC MCSM KAR Revised and commented on the manuscript: SSS TGC SC KAR OF.