1 Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundacion Universitaria Autonoma de las Americas, Pereira, Colombia.
2 Emerging Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Group, Instituto para la Investigación en Ciencias Biomédicas - Sci-Help, Pereira, Colombia.
3 School of Medicine, Universidad Privada Franz Tamayo (UNIFRANZ), Cochabamba, Bolivia.
4 Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru.
5 Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, United States.