About the Authors

Andrey A. Filippov

andrey.filippov@amedd.army.mil

Affiliation Division of Bacterial and Rickettsial Diseases, Department of Emerging Bacterial Infections, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Kirill V. Sergueev

Affiliation Division of Bacterial and Rickettsial Diseases, Department of Emerging Bacterial Infections, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Yunxiu He

Affiliation Division of Bacterial and Rickettsial Diseases, Department of Emerging Bacterial Infections, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Xiao-Zhe Huang

Affiliation Division of Bacterial and Rickettsial Diseases, Department of Emerging Bacterial Infections, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Bryan T. Gnade

Affiliation Division of Bacterial and Rickettsial Diseases, Department of Emerging Bacterial Infections, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Allen J. Mueller

Affiliation Division of Bacterial and Rickettsial Diseases, Department of Emerging Bacterial Infections, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Carmen M. Fernandez-Prada

Affiliation Division of Bacterial and Rickettsial Diseases, Department of Emerging Bacterial Infections, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Mikeljon P. Nikolich

Affiliation Division of Bacterial and Rickettsial Diseases, Department of Emerging Bacterial Infections, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AAF KVS X-ZH. Performed the experiments: AAF KVS YH X-ZH BTG AJM CMF-P. Analyzed the data: AAF KVS X-ZH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AAF YH MPN. Wrote the paper: AAF MPN.