About the Authors

Frederick Koster

fkoster@lrri.org

Affiliations Program in Applied Science, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America, Program in Infectious Diseases, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Kristine Gouveia

Affiliation Program in Infectious Diseases, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Yue Zhou

Affiliation Program in Aerosol Science, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Kristin Lowery

Affiliation Analytical Services Laboratory, Ibis Biosciences, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Robert Russell

Affiliation Program in Applied Science, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Heather MacInnes

Affiliation Program in Infectious Diseases, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Zemmie Pollock

Affiliation Program in Applied Science, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

R. Colby Layton

Affiliation Program in Infectious Diseases, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Jennifer Cromwell

Affiliation Analytical Services Laboratory, Ibis Biosciences, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Denise Toleno

Affiliation Analytical Services Laboratory, Ibis Biosciences, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

John Pyle

Affiliation Program in Infectious Diseases, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Michael Zubelewicz

Affiliation Program in Applied Science, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Kevin Harrod

Affiliation Program in Infectious Diseases, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Rangarajan Sampath

Affiliation Analytical Services Laboratory, Ibis Biosciences, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Steven Hofstadler

Affiliation Analytical Services Laboratory, Ibis Biosciences, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Peng Gao

Affiliation Program in Infectious Diseases, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Yushi Liu

Affiliation Program in Lung Cancer, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Yung-Sung Cheng

Affiliation Program in Aerosol Science, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

KL, JC, RS and SH are employees of Ibis Biosciences, An Abbott Company, which developed the technology of the T5000 platform. The current generation of this platform, the Abbott PLEX-ID is a commercially available platform and is protected by various patents including, but not limited to, US Patent Nos. 7,217,510 (issued May 15, 2007), 7,255,992 (issued August 14, 2007), 7,714,275 (issued May 11, 2010), 7,964,343 (issued June 21, 2011), 7,226,739 (issued June 5, 2007), 7,666,592 (issued February 23, 2010), 7,718,354 (issued May 18, 2010), and 7,781,162 (issued August 14, 2010). Ibis Biosciences has developed an Influenza assay for commercial sale which is not for use in diagnostics procedures. 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

Conceived and designed the experiments: FK YZ RCL SH PG YSC. Performed the experiments: KG YZ HM ZP RCL MZ. Analyzed the data: FK KG YZ KL RR HM ZP JC DT JP MZ YL YSC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KH RS SH YL. Wrote the paper: FK YSC.