About the Authors
- Avital Avriel
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Contributed equally to this work with: Avital Avriel, Maya Paryente Wiessman
Affiliation Pulmonology Institute, Department of Internal Medicine, Soroka University Medical Center and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
- Maya Paryente Wiessman
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Contributed equally to this work with: Avital Avriel, Maya Paryente Wiessman
Affiliation Clinical Research Center, Soroka University Medical Center and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
- Yaniv Almog
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Affiliation Medical Intensive Care Unit, Soroka University Medical Center and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
- Yael Perl
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Affiliation Clinical Research Center, Soroka University Medical Center and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
- Victor Novack
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Affiliation Clinical Research Center, Soroka University Medical Center and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
- Ori Galante
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Affiliation General Intensive Care Unit, Soroka University Medical Center and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
- Moti Klein
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Affiliation General Intensive Care Unit, Soroka University Medical Center and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
- Michael J. Pencina
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Affiliation Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Amos Douvdevani
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* E-mail: amosd@bgu.ac.il
Affiliation Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Soroka University Medical Center and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Competing Interests
Amos Douvdevani submitted a US Patent Application No. 13/659,439 “Assay for Detecting Circulating Free Nucleic Acids”. All other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. The authors confirm that this does not alter the authors' firm commitment to PLOS ONE standing policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AA AD YA. Performed the experiments: AA OG MK. Analyzed the data: MPW YP VN MJP AD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AD MJP. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: AA AD MPW VN.