About the Authors
- Rangarajan Sampath
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* E-mail: rangarajan.sampath@abbott.com
Affiliation Ibis Biosciences, Abbott, Carlsbad, California, United States of America
- Niveen Mulholland
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Current address: Fisher BioServices, Germantown, Maryland, United States of America
Affiliation MRIGlobal, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Lawrence B. Blyn
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Affiliation Ibis Biosciences, Abbott, Carlsbad, California, United States of America
- Christian Massire
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Affiliation Ibis Biosciences, Abbott, Carlsbad, California, United States of America
- Chris A. Whitehouse
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Affiliation United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America
- Nicole Waybright
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Affiliation MRIGlobal, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Courtney Harter
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Affiliation MRIGlobal, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Joseph Bogan
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Affiliation MRIGlobal, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- Mary Sue Miranda
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Affiliation Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive Directorate, Lab Division, Pentagon Force Protection Agency, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
- David Smith
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Affiliation Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive Directorate, Lab Division, Pentagon Force Protection Agency, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
- Carson Baldwin
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Affiliation United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America
- Mark Wolcott
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Affiliation United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America
- David Norwood
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Affiliation United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, United States of America
- Rachael Kreft
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Current address: Center for Genomic Sciences, Allegheny-Singer Research Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Affiliation Ibis Biosciences, Abbott, Carlsbad, California, United States of America
- Mark Frinder
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Affiliation Ibis Biosciences, Abbott, Carlsbad, California, United States of America
- Robert Lovari
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Affiliation Ibis Biosciences, Abbott, Carlsbad, California, United States of America
- Irene Yasuda
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Affiliation Ibis Biosciences, Abbott, Carlsbad, California, United States of America
- Heather Matthews
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Affiliation Ibis Biosciences, Abbott, Carlsbad, California, United States of America
- Donna Toleno
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Affiliation Ibis Biosciences, Abbott, Carlsbad, California, United States of America
- Roberta Housley
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Affiliation Ibis Biosciences, Abbott, Carlsbad, California, United States of America
- David Duncan
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Affiliation Ibis Biosciences, Abbott, Carlsbad, California, United States of America
- Feng Li
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Affiliation Ibis Biosciences, Abbott, Carlsbad, California, United States of America
- Robin Warren
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Affiliation Ibis Biosciences, Abbott, Carlsbad, California, United States of America
- Mark W. Eshoo
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Affiliation Ibis Biosciences, Abbott, Carlsbad, California, United States of America
- Thomas A. Hall
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Affiliation Ibis Biosciences, Abbott, Carlsbad, California, United States of America
- Steven A. Hofstadler
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Affiliation Ibis Biosciences, Abbott, Carlsbad, California, United States of America
- David J. Ecker
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Affiliation Ibis Biosciences, Abbott, Carlsbad, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
R.S. and other authors with affiliation listed as Ibis Biosciences Inc., are employees of Ibis Biosciences, a subsidiary of Abbott Molecular, Inc., which manufactures the instruments and reagents used in this study. N.M. and other authors with affiliations listed as MRIGlobal are employees of MRIGlobal, an independent, not-for-profit contract research organization that was funded by Ibis and the Department of Homeland Security to carry out the validation studies. The opinions, interpretations, conclusions, and recommendations are those of the authors and are not necessarily endorsed by the United States Army or the Pentagon Force Protection Agency.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RS NM LBB DJE JB DS MSM CAW SAH. Performed the experiments: RS NM LBB MSM MF NW CH CB RK RL DD MWE IY. Analyzed the data: RS NM CM RH HM DT RW FL TAH MSM CAW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RS NM LBB MF RL JB DS MSM MW DN CAW DS. Wrote the paper: RS NM RH CAW DJE.