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

"I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Marlon Dillon is employed by the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the Vaccine Research Center, and at the time the work was performed, DGS was also employed at the National Institutes of Health, Vaccine Research Center. Support was provided in part by the NIAID for this work. Other authors have declared that no conflicts of interest exist."

"This work was supported in part by grant W81XWH-17-1-0668 from the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) Tick Borne Disease Research Program to JSD and DJG https://cdmrp.health.mil/, and by grant R21AI171791 from the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to JSD. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."