About the Authors

Makesha Miggins

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Anjum Hasan

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Samuel Hohmann

Affiliation University HealthSystem Consortium, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Frederick Southwick

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

George Casella

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Denise Schain

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Huazhi Liu

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Azra Bihorac

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Critical Care, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Lyle Moldawer

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Philip Efron

Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Critical Care, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Darwin Ang

darwin.ang@surgery.ufl.edu

Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Critical Care, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DA MM FS GC DS AH SH LM. Performed the experiments: DA MM HL DS GC SH. Analyzed the data: DA MM FS DS GC PE LL AB HL AH SH LM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DA MM HL FS GC AH. Wrote the paper: DA MM AH GC SH DS FS LM.