About the Authors

Punsiri M. Colonne

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Caylin G. Winchell

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Joseph G. Graham

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Frances I. Onyilagha

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Laura J. MacDonald

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Heike R. Doeppler

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America

Peter Storz

Affiliation Department of Cancer Biology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America

Richard C. Kurten

Affiliations Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America, Arkansas Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Paul A. Beare

Affiliation Coxiella Pathogenesis Section, Laboratory of Bacteriology, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

Robert A. Heinzen

Affiliation Coxiella Pathogenesis Section, Laboratory of Bacteriology, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

Daniel E. Voth

dvoth@uams.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: PMC DEV. Data curation: PMC DEV. Formal analysis: PMC DEV. Funding acquisition: PS RCK RAH DEV. Investigation: PMC CGW JGG FIO LJM. Methodology: PMC LJM RCK DEV. Project administration: DEV. Resources: HRD PS RCK PAB RAH. Supervision: DEV. Validation: PMC CGW JGG FIO DEV. Visualization: PMC DEV. Writing – original draft: PMC DEV. Writing – review & editing: PMC DEV.