About the Authors

Violeta Castro-Leyva

Affiliations Department of Infectology, Instituto Nacional de Perinatologia Isidro Espinosa de los Reyes, Mexico City, Mexico, Posgrado en Ciencias Quimico-Biologicas, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico

Aurora Espejel-Nuñez

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Instituto Nacional de Perinatologia Isidro Espinosa de los Reyes, Mexico City, Mexico

Gerardo Barroso

Affiliation Clinical Research Division, Instituto Nacional de Perinatologia Isidro Espinosa de los Reyes, Mexico City, Mexico

Veronica Zaga-Clavellina

Affiliation Department of Cellular Biology, Instituto Nacional de Perinatologia Isidro Espinosa de los Reyes, Mexico City, Mexico

Arturo Flores-Pliego

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Instituto Nacional de Perinatologia Isidro Espinosa de los Reyes, Mexico City, Mexico

Iyari Morales-Mendez

Affiliation Department of Infectology, Instituto Nacional de Perinatologia Isidro Espinosa de los Reyes, Mexico City, Mexico

Silvia Giono-Cerezo

Affiliation Posgrado en Ciencias Quimico-Biologicas, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico

Scott W. Walsh

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Physiology and Biophysics, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Guadalupe Estrada-Gutierrez

gpestrad@yahoo.es

Affiliation Department of Infectology, Instituto Nacional de Perinatologia Isidro Espinosa de los Reyes, Mexico City, Mexico

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GEG. Performed the experiments: VCL AEN AFP VZC. Analyzed the data: GB SWW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SGC IMM. Wrote the paper: GEG SWW.