About the Authors
- Brooke K. Decker
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Affiliation Cleveland Clinic Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Michael R. Jacobs
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
- Wondwossen A. Gebreyes
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Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Scott T. Zoll
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Affiliation Ibis Biosciences Inc., Abbott Molecular, Inc., Carlsbad, California, United States of America
- Christian Massire
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Affiliation Ibis Biosciences Inc., Abbott Molecular, Inc., Carlsbad, California, United States of America
- Mark W. Eshoo
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Affiliation Ibis Biosciences Inc., Abbott Molecular, Inc., Carlsbad, California, United States of America
- David J. Ecker
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Affiliation Ibis Biosciences Inc., Abbott Molecular, Inc., Carlsbad, California, United States of America
- Philip N. Rather
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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
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* E-mail: 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.