Administración Nacional de Laboratorios e Institutos de Salud
Brazil
Instituto Butantan, Fundação Ezequiel Dias, Instituto Vital Brazil, and Centro de Produção e Pesquisa em Imunobiológicos
Bolivia
Instituto Nacional de Laboratorios de Salud
Colombia
Instituto Nacional de Salud
Costa Rica
Instituto Clodomiro Picado, Universidad de Costa Rica
Mexico
BIRMEX, Laboratorio de Biológicos y Reactivos de México
Peru
Instituto Nacional de Salud
Venezuela
BIOTECFAR, Universidad Central de Venezuela
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Author contributions
JAR, GRBV, and JAE: Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. SAC: Funding acquisition, Conceptualization, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. All authors read and approved the submitted version.
Conflicts of interest
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
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Funding
This work was partially supported by the Agencia Nacional de Promoción de la Investigación, el Desarrollo Tecnológico y la Innovación de la República Argentina [PICT-2021-I-A-00236]; the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) [PIP 11220210100075CO] and the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina [20020220200001BA]. SAC is a researcher at the CONICET and a professor at the UBA. JAR, GRBV, and JAE are teachers at the UBA. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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