About the Authors

Anand Kumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Anand Kumar, Jay Krishnan

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

akumar61@yahoo.com

Affiliation Sections of Critical Care Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Departments of Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Samantha B. Kasloff

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

Anders Leung

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

Todd Cutts

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

James E. Strong

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

Kevin Hills

Roles Investigation

Affiliation National Centre for Foreign Animal Diseases, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Winnipeg, Canada

Frank X. Gu

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Paul Chen

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Gloria Vazquez-Grande

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Barret Rush

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Section of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Sylvain Lother

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Section of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Kimberly Malo

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Occupational & Environmental Safety and Health, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, Winnipeg, Canada

Ryan Zarychanski

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sections of Critical Care and Hematology, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Jay Krishnan

Contributed equally to this work with: Anand Kumar, Jay Krishnan

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.