Reply to Nguyen and Frost

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. 2021 Oct 5;73(7):e1775-e1777.

doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1788.

Christiane Maria Prado Jeronimo^{1

2}, José Diego Brito-Sousa^{1

2}, Mayla Gabriela Silva Borba^{1

2}, Djane Clarys Baía-da-Silva^{1

2}, Fernando Fonseca Almeida Val^{1

2}, Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro^{1

2}, Gisely Cardoso Melo^{1

2}, Vanderson Souza Sampaio^{1

2

3}, Marcia Almeida Araújo Alexandre¹, Mariana Xavier^{1

4}, Quique Bassat^{5

6

7

8

9}, Gustavo Adolfo Sierra Romero¹⁰, Ludhmila Abrahão Hajjar¹¹, Marcus Vinícius Guimarães Lacerda^{1

2

12}

Affiliations

¹ Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Brazil.
² Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil.
³ Fundação de Vigilância em Saúde do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil.
⁴ Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Carlos Chagas, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
⁵ Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clínic-Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁶ Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça, Maputo, Mozambique.
⁷ Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain.
⁸ Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Pediatrics Department, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁹ Consorcio de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain.
¹⁰ Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil.
¹¹ Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
¹² Instituto Leônidas & Maria Deane, Fiocruz Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil.

Comment

Christiane Maria Prado Jeronimo et al. Clin Infect Dis. 2021.

. 2021 Oct 5;73(7):e1775-e1777.

doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1788.

¹ Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Brazil.
² Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil.
³ Fundação de Vigilância em Saúde do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil.
⁴ Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Carlos Chagas, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
⁵ Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clínic-Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁶ Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça, Maputo, Mozambique.
⁷ Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain.
⁸ Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Pediatrics Department, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁹ Consorcio de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain.
¹⁰ Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil.
¹¹ Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
¹² Instituto Leônidas & Maria Deane, Fiocruz Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil.

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