Nogueira, Viviane Brito https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6196-0046
de Oliveira Mendes-Aguiar, Carolina https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9601-8376
Teixeira, Diego Gomes https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3290-9468
Freire-Neto, Francisco Paulo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2394-2773
Tassi, Leo Zenon https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5647-6479
Ferreira, Leonardo Capistrano
Wilson, Mary Edythe https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8680-7275
Lima, Josivan Gomes https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1627-7018
Jeronimo, Selma Maria Bezerra https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4784-9904
Funding for this research was provided by:
Department of Veterans’ Affairs, USA (Merit Review grants I01 BX000536, I01 BX001983)
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – Brasil (Finance Code 001)
Brazilian National Institutes of Science and Technology of Tropical Diseases (#465229/2014-0)
Brazilian National Council of Research and Technology (Universal 406076/2021-9)
Article History
Received: 1 February 2024
Accepted: 8 May 2024
First Online: 16 May 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.