About the Authors

Antonio Gigliotti Rothfuchs

antonio.rothfuchs@ki.se (AGR); andre.bafica@ufsc.br (AB)

Affiliations Immunobiology Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Ester Roffê

Affiliation Molecular Signaling Section, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Amanda Gibson

Affiliation Immunobiology Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Allen W. Cheever

Affiliations Immunobiology Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Biomedical Research Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

R. Alan B. Ezekowitz

Current address: Abide Therapeutics, San Diego, California, United States of America

Affiliation Laboratory of Developmental Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kazue Takahashi

Affiliation Laboratory of Developmental Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mario Steindel

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

Alan Sher

Affiliation Immunobiology Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

André Báfica

antonio.rothfuchs@ki.se (AGR); andre.bafica@ufsc.br (AB)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AGR ER MS AS AB. Performed the experiments: AGR ER AG AB. Analyzed the data: AGR ER AG AWC AB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RABE KT MS. Wrote the paper: AGR AS AB.