About the Authors

Shailja Jakhar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Physical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Ramamurthy Sakamuri

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Bako Diagnostics, Alpharetta, Georgia, United States of America

Affiliation Physical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Dung Vu

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Physical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, Actinide Analytical chemistry, Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Priya Dighe

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biosecurity and Public Health, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Loreen R. Stromberg

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Physical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Laura Lilley

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Physical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Nicolas Hengartner

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Biophysics, Theory Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Basil I. Swanson

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biosecurity and Public Health, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Emmanuel Moreau

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland

Susan E. Dorman

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Harshini Mukundan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

harshini@lanl.gov

Affiliation Physical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

Scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratories, operated by the Triad LLC, that are authors on this manuscript, do not have competing interests, and are not consultants for any competing interests. Ramamurthy Sakamuri was a post-doctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory when he conducted this research. He has subsequently transitioned to Bako Diagnostics, which is his current affiliation. However, Bako Diagnostics did not participate or were not involved in the research presented in this manuscript in any way. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.