About the Authors

Yiying Cai

Contributed equally to this work with: Yiying Cai, Nathalie Grace Chua

Affiliations Department of Pharmacy, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore, Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Nathalie Grace Chua

Contributed equally to this work with: Yiying Cai, Nathalie Grace Chua

Affiliations Department of Pharmacy, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore, Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Tze-Peng Lim

Affiliations Department of Pharmacy, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore, SingHealth Duke-NUS Medicine Academic Clinical Programme, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore

Jocelyn Qi-Min Teo

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

Winnie Lee

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

Asok Kurup

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Care, Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

Tse-Hsien Koh

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

Thuan-Tong Tan

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

Andrea L. Kwa

andrea.kwa.l.h@sgh.com.sg

Affiliations Department of Pharmacy, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore, Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

ALK has received funding for research from Janssen-Cilag, Pfizer Inc. and Merck Sharp and Dome (I.A) Corp. None of the companies provided any funding for this study. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YC TPL JT WL AK TTT ALK THK. Performed the experiments: YC NGC TPL JT. Analyzed the data: YC NGC WL ALK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK TTT ALK THK. Wrote the paper: YC NGC ALK.