About the Authors

Angela R. Branche

angela_branche@urmc.rochester.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States of America

Edward E. Walsh

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, NY, United States of America

Nagesh Jadhav

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, NY, United States of America

Rachel Karmally

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, NY, United States of America

Andrea Baran

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States of America

Derick R. Peterson

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States of America

Ann R. Falsey

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, NY, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Falsey has served on advisory boards for Novavax, Hologic, Gilead, and Medimmune and has received research funding from AstraZeneca, Sanofi Pasteur, GlaxoSmith Kline, and ADMA Biologics. Dr. Walsh has served on advisory boards for Novavax, Gilead, Alios Pharmaceuticals, ClearPath, Incorporated, and Medimmune and has received research funding from AstraZeneca and Sanofi Pasteur. All other authors declared no financial disclosures. BioFire, Inc, Salt Lake City, UT provided the FilmArray Respiratory Panel Instrument to conduct the study. There are no patents, products in development, or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed on-line in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: A. Branche AF EW. Performed the experiments: A. Branche AF EW. Analyzed the data: A. Branche AF EW NJ RK A. Baran. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: A. Branche AF EW A. Baran. Wrote the paper: A. Branche AF EW A. Baran NJ RK DP.