About the Authors

Belén Lloveras

blloveras@parcdesalutmar.cat

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Hospital del Mar, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Silvia Gomez

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Hospital del Mar, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Francesc Alameda

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Hospital del Mar, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Beatriz Bellosillo

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Hospital del Mar, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Sergi Mojal

Affiliation Consulting Service on Methodology for Biomedical Research, IMIM, Barcelona, Spain

Mercè Muset

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Hospital del Mar, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Manuel Parra

Affiliation Clinical Unit of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Hospital de Valme, Sevilla, Spain

José Carlos Palomares

Affiliation Clinical Unit of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Hospital de Valme, Sevilla, Spain

Sergi Serrano

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Hospital del Mar, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

Roche has paid travel expenses and meeting registration fees for Dr. B. Lloveras. Silvia Gomez is a Ph.D. student at Hospital del Mar and works for Roche Diagnostics s.l. in Application Customer Support. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BL FA SG BB SS. Performed the experiments: SG BB MM MP JCP. Analyzed the data: SM. Wrote the paper: BL SG FA BB.