About the Authors

Jacilara Conceição

Affiliation Serviço de Imunologia, Hospital Universitário Professor Edgard Santos, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Richard Davis

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Program in Immunology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Pedro Paulo Carneiro

Affiliation Serviço de Imunologia, Hospital Universitário Professor Edgard Santos, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Angela Giudice

Affiliation Serviço de Imunologia, Hospital Universitário Professor Edgard Santos, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Aline C. Muniz

Affiliation Serviço de Imunologia, Hospital Universitário Professor Edgard Santos, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Mary E. Wilson

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Program in Immunology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine and Microbiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Edgar M. Carvalho

Affiliations Serviço de Imunologia, Hospital Universitário Professor Edgard Santos, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia de Doenças Tropicais - INCT-DT (CNPq/MCT), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Centro de Pesquisa Gonçalo Moniz, FIOCRUZ – BA, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Olívia Bacellar

olivinhaufba@gmail.com

Affiliations Serviço de Imunologia, Hospital Universitário Professor Edgard Santos, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia de Doenças Tropicais - INCT-DT (CNPq/MCT), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OB EMC. Performed the experiments: JC PPC ACM AG. Analyzed the data: JC OB RD MEW. Wrote the paper: JC OB EMC RD MEW.