This conclusion is based on the following supporting evidence: (Fu et al., 2017) Our whole-cell current-clamp recordings show that infection of small-sized DRG neurons (corresponding to nociceptors) (Lawson, 2002) with vHCA8WT but not vHCA8MT causes prolongation of AHP (Figure 3 and Table 1; Levitt et al., 2017) This AHP prolongation is completely reversed by the Kv7-specific inhibitor XE-991 (Figure 4, Table 2, and Supplementary Table S2) but not impacted by other potassium channel inhibitors (Supplementary Figure S2 and Supplementary Table S3) (Upadhyay et al., 2019). This evidence concerns the gene KCNA3 and infection.