**Author details**

Carla Moreira Santana1 , Max Mario Fuhlendorf1 , Felipe Baena Garcia1 , Edmar Silva Santos1 , Ângela Maria Lourenço2 , Cristiane Castro Faccini2 , Abílio Augusto Fragata Filho2 , Aline Diniz Cabral3 and Márcia Aparecida Sperança1 \*

1 Center for Natural and Human Sciences, Federal University of ABC, São Paulo, Brazil

2 Outpatient Clinic for Chagas Disease, Dante Pazzanese Cardiology Institute, São Paulo, Brazil

3 Department of Parasitology, Federal University of Uberlandia, Minas Gerais, Brazil

\*Address all correspondence to: marcia.speranca@ufabc.edu.br

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