About the Authors

Nadlla Alves Bispo

Affiliation Instituto de Patologia Tropical e Saúde Pública/Universidade Federal de Goiás/Goiânia, Brazil

Richard Culleton

Affiliation Malaria Unit/Institute of Tropical Medicine (NEKKEN)/Nagasaki University/Nagasaki, Japan

Lourival Almeida Silva

Affiliation Instituto de Patologia Tropical e Saúde Pública/Universidade Federal de Goiás/Goiânia, Brazil

Pedro Cravo

pedrovcravo@gmail.com

Affiliations Instituto de Patologia Tropical e Saúde Pública/Universidade Federal de Goiás/Goiânia, Brazil, Centro de Malária e Doenças Tropicais.LA/IHMT/Universidade Nova de Lisboa/Lisboa, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PC. Performed the experiments: NB RC LAS PC. Analyzed the data: NB RC PC. Wrote the paper: PC RC.