About the Authors

Robin Ireland

Affiliation Laboratory of Intracellular Parasites, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

Norma Olivares-Zavaleta

Affiliation Laboratory of Intracellular Parasites, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

Jonathan M. Warawa

Affiliation Laboratory of Zoonotic Pathogens, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

Frank C. Gherardini

Affiliation Laboratory of Zoonotic Pathogens, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

Clayton Jarrett

Affiliation Laboratory of Zoonotic Pathogens, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

B. Joseph Hinnebusch

Affiliation Laboratory of Zoonotic Pathogens, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

John T. Belisle

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Jeffery Fairman

Affiliation Juvaris Biotherapeutics, Burlingame, California, United States of America

Catharine M. Bosio

bosioc@niaid.nih.gov

Affiliation Laboratory of Intracellular Parasites, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

Competing Interests

A provisional patent for CLDC+MPF has been filed by NIH on behalf of Catharine M. Bosio, John T. Belise and Jeff Fairman.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RI CMB. Performed the experiments: RI NOZ JMW CJ CMB. Analyzed the data: RI CMB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FCG BJH JTB JF. Wrote the paper: CMB.