1 Academia Nacional de Medicina, Caracas, Venezuela. albertopaniz@yahoo.com.
2 Laboratorio de Biología de Vectores y Parásitos, Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto de Zoología y Ecología Tropical, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela.
3 Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
4 Wataniba, Programa Observatorio Socioambiental, Caracas, Venezuela.
5 Infectious Diseases Research Branch, Venezuelan Science Incubator and the Zoonosis and Emerging Pathogens Regional Collaborative Network, Department of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas IDB, Clinica IDB Cabudare, Cabudare, Venezuela.
6 National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
7 Sociedad Venezolana de Salud Pública, Caracas, Venezuela.