About the Authors

Donald Szlosek

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation IDEXX Laboratories, Inc., Westbrook, Maine, United States of America

Jane Robertson

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation IDEXX Laboratories, Inc., Westbrook, Maine, United States of America

Jessica Quimby

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Rebekah Mack

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation IDEXX Laboratories, Inc., Westbrook, Maine, United States of America

Jennifer Ogeer

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Antech Diagnostics, Fountain Valley, California, United States of America

Affiliation IDEXX Laboratories, Inc., Westbrook, Maine, United States of America

Celeste Clements

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation IDEXX Laboratories, Inc., Westbrook, Maine, United States of America

Donald J. McCrann

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation IDEXX Laboratories, Inc., Westbrook, Maine, United States of America

Michael J. Coyne

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

michael-coyne@idexx.com

Affiliation IDEXX Laboratories, Inc., Westbrook, Maine, United States of America

Competing Interests

Seven of the authors (DS, JR, RM, JO, CC, DJM, MJC) have an affiliation to the commercial funders of this research, as employees or past employees of IDEXX Laboratories. The work presented in this study was funded by IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. Westbrook, ME, USA (https://www.idexx.com/en/about-idexx/). IDEXX Laboratories, Inc., holds a patent on the ELISA methodology for measuring SDMA concentration (https://www.idexx.com/en/about-idexx/patents/) United States Patent No. US 481,690 B2; Date: July 9, 2013 Murthy et al., Methods for Detecting Symmetrical Dimethylarginine. IDEXX Laboratories, Inc., manufactures the IDEXX SDMA® Test evaluated in this study. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Data is freely available upon request.