Benidipine impairs innate immunity converting sublethal to lethal infections in a murine model of spotted fever rickettsiosis

• Andrés F. Londoño ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Andrés F. Londoño, Jennifer M. Farner

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Henry M. Jackson Foundation for Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4703-1387

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• Jennifer M. Farner ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Andrés F. Londoño, Jennifer M. Farner

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Henry M. Jackson Foundation for Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Emerging Infectious Disease Graduate Program, School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Marlon Dillon,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Dennis J. Grab,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Yuri Kim,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Henry M. Jackson Foundation for Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Diana G. Scorpio,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• J. Stephen Dumler

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: john.dumler@usuhs.edu

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8476-1311

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