About the Authors

Victor Emanuel Pessoa Martins

victorpessoabiologo@yahoo.com.br

Affiliation Human Biochemistry Laboratory, State University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

Carlos Henrique Alencar

Affiliation Department of Community Health, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

Michel Tott Kamimura

Affiliation Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, State University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

Fernanda Montenegro de Carvalho Araújo

Affiliation Central Laboratory of Public Health, Ceará State Health Secretariat, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

Salvatore Giovanni De Simone

Affiliation Peptides and Proteins Laboratory, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Rosa Fireman Dutra

Affiliation Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Maria Izabel Florindo Guedes

Affiliation Human Biochemistry Laboratory, State University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VEPM CHA MTK FMCA. Performed the experiments: VEPM CHA MTK FMCA RFD. Analyzed the data: VEPM CHA MTK FMCA MIFG SGDS RFD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MIFG SGDS RFD. Wrote the paper: VEPM CHA FMCA MIFG. Identification of Aedes aldults mosquitoes: VEPM CHA. Nucleotide sequencing: MTK VEPM. Description of the methodology for cell culture: FMCA SGDS VEPM.