About the Authors

William K. Scott

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

w.scott@miami.edu (WKS); psa@ssi.dk (PSA); vance.fowler@duke.edu (VGF)

Affiliations John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States of America, Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States of America

Felix Mba Medie

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States of America

Felicia Ruffin

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States of America

Batu K. Sharma-Kuinkel

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States of America

Derek D. Cyr

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States of America

Shengru Guo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States of America

Derek M. Dykxhoorn

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States of America, Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States of America

Robert L. Skov

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Bacteria, Parasites, and Fungi, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

Niels E. Bruun

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev-Gentofte, Denmark, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

Anders Dahl

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev-Gentofte, Denmark

Christian J. Lerche

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Andreas Petersen

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Bacteria, Parasites, and Fungi, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

Anders Rhod Larsen

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Bacteria, Parasites, and Fungi, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark

Trine Kiilerich Lauridsen

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev-Gentofte, Denmark

Helle Krogh Johansen

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Henrik Ullum

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Erik Sørensen

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Christian Hassager

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet and Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Henning Bundgaard

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet and Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Henrik C. Schønheyder

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

Christian Torp-Pedersen

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Institute, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

Louise Bruun Østergaard

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev-Gentofte, Denmark, Clinical Institute, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

Magnus Arpi

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev-Gentofte, Denmark

Flemming Rosenvinge

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark

Lise T. Erikstrup

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

Mahtab Chehri

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark

Peter Søgaard

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

Paal S. Andersen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

w.scott@miami.edu (WKS); psa@ssi.dk (PSA); vance.fowler@duke.edu (VGF)

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Bacteria, Parasites, and Fungi, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Vance G. Fowler Jr.

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

w.scott@miami.edu (WKS); psa@ssi.dk (PSA); vance.fowler@duke.edu (VGF)

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States of America, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States of America

Competing Interests

We have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: VGF served as Chair of V710 Scientific Advisory Committee (Merck); has received grant support from Cerexa/Actavis, Pfizer, Advanced Liquid Logics, NIH, MedImmune, Cubist/Merck, Karius, Contrafect, and Genentech. NIH STTR/SBIR grants pending: Affinergy, Locus, Medical Surface, Inc.; has been a paid consultant for Achaogen, Astellas, Arsanis, Affinergy, Basilea, Bayer, Cerexa, Contrafect, Cubist, Debiopharm, Durata, Grifols, Genentech, MedImmune, Merck, Medicines Co., Pfizer, Novartis, Novadigm, Theravance, xBiotech, and has received honoraria from Theravance, Green Cross, and has a patent pending in sepsis diagnostics.