Ribeiro, Gilmar Jr.
Frota, Juliana Ribeiro Trabuco
de Sousa Silva, Nathália Paixão
Barbosa, Bárbara Meneses Oliveira
Rios, Luana Sampaio
da Silva, Luís Cláudio Gualberto
de Araújo, Renato Freitas
Pereira, Felicidade Mota
de Carvalho, Cristiane Medeiros Moraes
Tiernan, Niamh Ellen
Bastos, Claudilson
Pavan, Tycha Bianca Sabaini
Santos, Fred Luciano Neves
Castro, Marcia C.
Navengantes, Wildo
Gurgel-Gonçalves, Rodrigo
Dumonteil, Eric
Herrera, Claudia
Reis, Mitermayer G.
Article History
Received: 9 July 2025
Accepted: 3 December 2025
First Online: 29 December 2025
Declarations
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: This study was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) for Human Research at the Gonçalo Moniz Institute of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ-BA), Salvador, Bahia, Brazil (protocol number 035/2023; CAAE: 83524524.7.0000.0040), and by the Ethics and Animal Use (protocol number 025/2023). All procedures followed the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki and its subsequent revisions, as well as Brazilian ethical guidelines, including Resolutions No. 466/1996 and No. 510/2016.No personal identification data were used to ensure participants’ complete anonymity. The research did not pose any physical, psychological, moral, intellectual, social, cultural, or religious risks to residents or animals.
: The authors declare no competing interests.