About the Authors

Xutao Deng

Affiliation Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Ester C. Sabino

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease/Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Edecio Cunha-Neto

Affiliations Laboratory of Immunology, Heart Institute (InCor)/Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Institute for Investigation in Immunology/Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia, São Paulo, Brazil

Antonio L. Ribeiro

Affiliation Hospital das Clínicas and Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Barbara Ianni

Affiliation Cardiomyopathy Unit of the Heart Institute (InCor) University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil

Charles Mady

Affiliation Cardiomyopathy Unit of the Heart Institute (InCor) University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil

Michael P. Busch

Affiliations Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Mark Seielstad

Mark.Seielstad@ucsf.edu

Affiliations Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Institute for Human Genetics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

the REDSII Chagas study group from the NHLBI Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study-II (REDS-II)
International Component

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS ECS ECN MB. Analyzed the data: XD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ALR BI CM. Wrote the paper: XD ECS ECN ALR MB MS.