About the Authors

Anne-Claire Lukaszewicz

aclukaszewicz@hotmail.com

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Lariboisière Hospital, Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France

Valérie Faivre

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Lariboisière Hospital, Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France

Hélène Bout

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Beaujon Hospital, Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France

Etienne Gayat

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Lariboisière Hospital, Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France

Tina Lagergren

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Lariboisière Hospital, Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France

Charles Damoisel

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Lariboisière Hospital, Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France

Damien Bresson

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Lariboisière Hospital, Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France

Catherine Paugam

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Beaujon Hospital, Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France

Jean Mantz

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Beaujon Hospital, Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France

Didier Payen

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Lariboisière Hospital, Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France

Competing Interests

AC Lukaszewicz and D Payen are inventors for the patent “Diagnosis of bacterial meningitis based on the measure of ROS production in a sample of cerebrospinal fluid”, property of Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (PCT/IB2011/053329 n° publication WO 2012/014156). The authors confirm that this does not alter their adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ACL DP. Performed the experiments: ACL VF TL. Analyzed the data: ACL EG HB TL CD DB CP JM DP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DP. Wrote the paper: ACL DP JM.