About the Authors

Felipe Guerra-Silveira

Affiliations Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane – Fiocruz Amazônia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, School of Medicine, Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

Fernando Abad-Franch

fernando@amazonia.fiocruz.br

Affiliation Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane – Fiocruz Amazônia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Contributed to the final version of the manuscript: FG-S FA-F. Conceived and designed the experiments: FA-F FG-S. Performed the experiments: FG-S FA-F. Analyzed the data: FA-F FG-S. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FA-F FG-S. Wrote the paper: FA-F.