About the Authors

Avital Avriel

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

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

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

Affiliation Clinical Research Center, Soroka University Medical Center and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Victor Novack

Affiliation Clinical Research Center, Soroka University Medical Center and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Ori Galante

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

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

Affiliation Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Amos Douvdevani

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.