About the Authors

Ozlen Saglam

ozlen.saglam@moffitt.org

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Erik Samayoa

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Sneha Somasekar

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Samia Naccache

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Akiko Iwasaki

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Immunobiology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Charles Y Chiu

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Charles Chiu is the director of the UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, and receives research support from Abbott Laboratories, Inc. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Dr. Charles Chiu is a PLOS One Editorial Board Member. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS One Editorial policies and criteria.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OS AI CYC. Performed the experiments: OS ES SS. Analyzed the data: OS ES SS SN AI CYC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OS AI CYC. Wrote the paper: OS ES SS AI CYC.