About the Authors
- Ghaleb Khirfan
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: khirfag@ccf.org
Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States of America
- Tawfeq Naal
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Pathobiology Department, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States of America
- Batool Abuhalimeh
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Pathobiology Department, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States of America
- Jennie Newman
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Pathobiology Department, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States of America
- Gustavo A. Heresi
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Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States of America
- Raed A. Dweik
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Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States of America
- Adriano R. Tonelli
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist except for Gustavo A. Heresi, who received personal fees for being a member in Bayer Healthcare – Advisory Board and Speaking. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare.