About the Authors

Andrew H. Walton

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jared T. Muenzer

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

David Rasche

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jonathan S. Boomer

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Bryan Sato

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Bernard H. Brownstein

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Alexandre Pachot

Affiliation Medical Diagnostic Discovery Department, BioMérieux Inc., Marcy 1'Etoile, France

Terrence L. Brooks

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Elena Deych

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

William D. Shannon

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jonathan M. Green

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Gregory A. Storch

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Richard S. Hotchkiss

hotch@wustl.edu

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Alexandre Pachot is an employee of Biomérieux. Biomérieux is trying to develop a method to follow the levels of various viruses in patient blood as an indicator of their immune status. Biomérieux provided no funding for the study and had no impact on writing up the study. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AHW JTM JSB BHB AP WDS JMG GAS RSH. Performed the experiments: AHW JTM DR JSB BS. Analyzed the data: AHW JTM DR BS TLB ED WDS. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: AHW BS JMG GAS RSH.