About the Authors

Kirill V. Sergueev

kirill.sergueev@amedd.army.mil (KVS); andrey.filippov@amedd.army.mil (AAF)

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

Richard H. Borschel

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

Andrey A. Filippov

kirill.sergueev@amedd.army.mil (KVS); andrey.filippov@amedd.army.mil (AAF)

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: KVS RHB AAF. Performed the experiments: KVS YH AAF. Analyzed the data: KVS AAF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KVS YH MPN AAF. Wrote the paper: KVS RHB MPN AAF.