About the Authors

Brooke K. Decker

Contributed equally to this work with: Brooke K. Decker, Federico Perez

Current address: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Federico Perez

Contributed equally to this work with: Brooke K. Decker, Federico Perez

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Research Service, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Andrea M. Hujer

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Research Service, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Kristine M. Hujer

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Research Service, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Geraldine S. Hall

Affiliation Cleveland Clinic Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Michael R. Jacobs

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Wondwossen A. Gebreyes

Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Scott T. Zoll

Affiliation Ibis Biosciences Inc., Abbott Molecular, Inc., Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Christian Massire

Affiliation Ibis Biosciences Inc., Abbott Molecular, Inc., Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Mark W. Eshoo

Affiliation Ibis Biosciences Inc., Abbott Molecular, Inc., Carlsbad, California, United States of America

David J. Ecker

Affiliation Ibis Biosciences Inc., Abbott Molecular, Inc., Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Philip N. Rather

Affiliations Research Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Decatur, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Robert A. Bonomo

Robert.Bonomo@va.gov

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Research Service, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

One of the authors, Federico Perez, received grant funding from Steris Corporation. Scott T. Zoll, Christian Massire, Mark W. Eshoo, and David. J. Ecker are or were employees of Ibis Biosciences Inc, Abbott Molecular Inc., during the completion of this study. This company develops and sells the Ibis T5000 Biosensor, which was used for this study. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BD FP AH KMH RB DE. Performed the experiments: BD FP AH SZ CM ME. Analyzed the data: BD FP AH KMH RB PR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GH WG MJ. Wrote the paper: DB FP AH KMH RB.