About the Authors

Adam L. Hersh

adam.hersh@hsc.utah.edu

Affiliation Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Daniel J. Shapiro

Affiliation Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jason G. Newland

Affiliation Children's Mercy Hospital and Clinics, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Philip M. Polgreen

Affiliation University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Susan E. Beekmann

Affiliation University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Samir S. Shah

Affiliations Departments of Pediatrics and Biostatistics and Epidemiology, and the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ALH JGN PMP SEB SSS. Performed the experiments: ALH JGN PMP SEB SSS. Analyzed the data: ALH DJS. Wrote the paper: ALH. Critical revision of manuscript: DJS JGN PMP SEB SSS.