About the Authors

Uffe Vest Schneider

uvs@quantibact.com

Affiliation QuantiBact A/S, Hvidovre, Denmark

Nikolaj Dam Mikkelsen

Affiliation QuantiBact A/S, Hvidovre, Denmark

Anja Lindqvist

Affiliation QuantiBact A/S, Hvidovre, Denmark

Limei Meng Okkels

Affiliation QuantiBact A/S, Hvidovre, Denmark

Nina Jøhnk

Affiliation QuantiBact A/S, Hvidovre, Denmark

Gorm Lisby

Affiliation QuantiBact A/S, Hvidovre, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interest. All authors are employees of QuantiBact A/S, which has exclusive license to use TINA modified oligonucleotides for human diagnostics and WO 2009/112032 A1 owned by QuantiBact A/S covers use of TINA molecules for commercial PCR assays. QuantiBact A/S seeks to make the use and design of TINA modified oligonucleotides known broadly within the scientific community. There are no further patents or products in development or marketed products to declare. 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: UVS NDM AL LMO NJ GL. Performed the experiments: UVS NDM AL LMO NJ. Analyzed the data: UVS NDM AL GL. Wrote the paper: UVS GL.