Affiliations

• ¹ Health Sciences Faculty, Universidad Internacional SEK (UISEK), Quito, Ecuador; School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador; Institute of Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany; Research Group of Emerging and Neglected Diseases, Ecoepidemiology and Biodiversity, Health Sciences Faculty, Universidad Internacional SEK (UISEK), Quito, Ecuador; Centro de Investigación para la Salud en América Latina (CISeAL), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador. Electronic address: jaime.acosta@uisek.edu.ec.
• ² School of Medical Specialties, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador.
• ³ Dermatology Postgraduate Program, Carlos Chagas Postgraduate Medical Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Hospital Central Aristarcho Pessoa, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• ⁴ Health Sciences Faculty, Universidad Internacional SEK (UISEK), Quito, Ecuador; Research Group of Emerging and Neglected Diseases, Ecoepidemiology and Biodiversity, Health Sciences Faculty, Universidad Internacional SEK (UISEK), Quito, Ecuador.
• ⁵ College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
• ⁶ Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru; Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon.