About the Authors

Elena Jordana-Lluch

Affiliation Microbiology Department, Fundació Institut d’Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Spain

Heather E. Carolan

Affiliation Ibis Biosciences, an Abbott company, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Montserrat Giménez

Affiliation Microbiology Department, Fundació Institut d’Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Spain

Rangarajan Sampath

Affiliation Ibis Biosciences, an Abbott company, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

David J. Ecker

Affiliation Ibis Biosciences, an Abbott company, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

M. Dolores Quesada

Affiliation Microbiology Department, Fundació Institut d’Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Spain

Josep M. Mòdol

Affiliation Emergency Room, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain

Fernando Arméstar

Affiliation Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain

Lawrence B. Blyn

Affiliation Ibis Biosciences, an Abbott company, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Lendell L. Cummins

Affiliation Ibis Biosciences, an Abbott company, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Vicente Ausina

vausina.germanstrias@gencat.cat

Affiliations Microbiology Department, Fundació Institut d’Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Spain, CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Bunyola, Spain

Elisa Martró

Affiliations Microbiology Department, Fundació Institut d’Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Spain, CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

HE Carolan, R Sampath, DJ Ecker, LB Blyn, and LL Cummins are employees of Ibis Biosciences, an Abbott company. All the reagents and materials necessary for PCR/ESI-MS testing were supplied by Ibis Biosciences. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Critically reviewed the manuscript: MG MDQ HEC JMM FA LLC DJE RS LBB. Acquired the data: EJL HEC RS LLC LBB JMM FA. Conceived and designed the experiments: EM VA EJL DJE LLC. Performed the experiments: EJL EM LLC. Analyzed the data: EJL EM MG MDQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VA LLC DJE RS LBB. Wrote the paper: EJL EM VA.