About the Authors
- Jennifer R. Honda
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jennifer R. Honda, Nabeeh A. Hasan, Rebecca M. Davidson, Myra D. Williams
* E-mail: Jennifer.Honda@ucdenver.edu, hondaJ@njhealth.org)
Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States Of America, Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Denver, Colorado, United States Of America, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, United States Of America
- Nabeeh A. Hasan
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jennifer R. Honda, Nabeeh A. Hasan, Rebecca M. Davidson, Myra D. Williams
Affiliation National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, United States Of America
- Rebecca M. Davidson
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jennifer R. Honda, Nabeeh A. Hasan, Rebecca M. Davidson, Myra D. Williams
Affiliation National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, United States Of America
- Myra D. Williams
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Contributed equally to this work with: Jennifer R. Honda, Nabeeh A. Hasan, Rebecca M. Davidson, Myra D. Williams
Affiliation Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States Of America
- L. Elaine Epperson
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Affiliation National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, United States Of America
- Paul R. Reynolds
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Affiliation National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, United States Of America
- Terry Smith
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Affiliation Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States Of America
- Elena Iakhiaeva
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Affiliation Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States Of America
- Matthew J. Bankowski
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Affiliations Diagnostic Laboratory Services Inc., Aiea, Hawai’i, United States Of America, Departments of Pathology and Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawai’i, United States Of America
- Richard J. Wallace Jr.
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Affiliation University of Texas Health Science Center, Tyler, Texas, United States Of America
- Edward D. Chan
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Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States Of America, Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Denver, Colorado, United States Of America, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, United States Of America
- Joseph O. Falkinham III
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Affiliation Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States Of America
- Michael Strong
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Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States Of America, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, United States Of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Dr. Matthew J. Bankowski, Ph.D., D(ABMM) is the Technical Director for Diagnostic Laboratory Services, Inc., the reference laboratory for The Queen's Medical Center, which is owned by the Queen’s Health Care system.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: JRH NAH RMD RJW EDC JOF MS. Data curation: NAH RMD. Formal analysis: NAH RMD. Funding acquisition: JRH RJW EDC JOF MS. Investigation: JRH NAH RMD MDW LEE PRR TS EI. Methodology: JRH NAH RMD. Project administration: JRH. Resources: JRH NAH RMD MJB RJW EDC JOF MS. Software: NAH RMD. Visualization: JRH NAH RMD. Writing – original draft: JRH NAH RMD LEE PRR MJB RJW EDC JOF MS. Writing – review & editing: JRH NAH RMD LEE PRR MJB RJW EDC JOF MS.