About the Authors

Kfir Oved

eraneden@me-med.com (EE); kfiroved@me-med.com (KO)

Affiliation MeMed Diagnostics, Tirat Carmel, Israel

Asi Cohen

Affiliation MeMed Diagnostics, Tirat Carmel, Israel

Olga Boico

Affiliation MeMed Diagnostics, Tirat Carmel, Israel

Roy Navon

Affiliation MeMed Diagnostics, Tirat Carmel, Israel

Tom Friedman

Affiliations MeMed Diagnostics, Tirat Carmel, Israel, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel

Liat Etshtein

Affiliations MeMed Diagnostics, Tirat Carmel, Israel, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Or Kriger

Current address: Department of Pediatrics, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, Israel

Affiliation MeMed Diagnostics, Tirat Carmel, Israel

Ellen Bamberger

Affiliations MeMed Diagnostics, Tirat Carmel, Israel, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Department of Pediatrics, Bnai-Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel

Yura Fonar

Current address: Israel Medical Corps

Affiliation MeMed Diagnostics, Tirat Carmel, Israel

Renata Yacobov

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, Israel

Ron Wolchinsky

Affiliation Faculty of Biology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Galit Denkberg

Affiliation Applied Immune Technologies, Haifa, Israel

Yaniv Dotan

Affiliations Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Department of Internal Medicine, Bnai-Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel

Amit Hochberg

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, Israel

Yoram Reiter

Affiliation Faculty of Biology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Moti Grupper

Affiliations Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Infectious Diseases Unit, Bnai-Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel

Isaac Srugo

Affiliations Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Department of Pediatrics, Bnai-Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel

Paul Feigin

Affiliation Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Malka Gorfine

Affiliation Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Irina Chistyakov

Affiliations Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Department of Pediatrics, Bnai-Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel

Ron Dagan

Affiliation Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit and Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Soroka Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Adi Klein

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, Israel

Israel Potasman

Affiliations Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Infectious Diseases Unit, Bnai-Zion Medical Center, Haifa, Israel

Eran Eden

eraneden@me-med.com (EE); kfiroved@me-med.com (KO)

Affiliation MeMed Diagnostics, Tirat Carmel, Israel

Competing Interests

This study was funded by MeMed. KO, AC, OB, RN, TF, LE, EB and EE are employed by MeMed. TF and KO were previously employed by MeMed. Professors PF, IP, and YR report holding equity ownership or stock-options in MeMed. Drs. IC, YD, MG, and AH were part of the clinical expert panel and received hourly fees from MeMed. Prof. RD received consulting fees from MeMed. All MeMed affiliated authors hold stock options. GD is employed by Applied Immune Technologies. Dr. GD contributed to this work in her free time without any compensation from MeMed or Applied Immune Technologies. Drs. EE and KO have two related patents: WO 2011/132086 (Signatures and determinants for distinguishing between a bacterial and viral infection and methods of use thereof) and WO 2013/117746 (Signatures and determinants for diagnosing infections and methods of use thereof). MeMed has the following related products: ImmunoXpert™ and ImmunoPoC™ (in development). This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KO IP YR IS AK EE. Performed the experiments: OB TF LE OK YF RY RW GD YD AH MG IC. Analyzed the data: KO AC OB RN PF MG EE. Wrote the paper: KO AC EB MG IS PF RD IP EE. Interpretation of results: KO AC RN EB RD EE. Critically revised the manuscript: OB RN TF LE OK YF RY RW GD YD AH YR MG IC AK.