About the Authors

Scott L. Weiss

WeissS@email.chop.edu

Affiliation Division of Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Memorial Hospital, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Min Yu

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Memorial Hospital, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Lawrence Jennings

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Memorial Hospital, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Shannon Haymond

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Memorial Hospital, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Gang Zhang

Affiliation Biostatistics Research Core, Children's Memorial Research Center, Chicago Illinois, United States of America

Mark S. Wainwright

Affiliations Division of Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Memorial Hospital, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Division of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Memorial Hospital, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America,

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SLW SH MSW. Performed the experiments: SLW MY LJ SH. Analyzed the data: SLW GZ MSW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MY LJ SH. Wrote the paper: SLW MSW.