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About the Authors
- Kimberly J. Alexander
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kimberly J. Alexander, Jennifer L. Furlong
Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Special Pathogens Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America
- Jennifer L. Furlong
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Contributed equally to this work with: Kimberly J. Alexander, Jennifer L. Furlong
Roles Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Special Pathogens Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America
- Julianne L. Baron
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Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Special Pathogens Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America
- John D. Rihs
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Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Special Pathogens Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America
- Dominic Stephenson
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Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Microbiology Department, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Department of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- John D. Perry
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Microbiology Department, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Department of Applied Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- Janet E. Stout
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Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: jstout@specialpathogenslab.com
Affiliations Special Pathogens Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Swanson School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America
Competing Interests
The Freeman Hospital Microbiology Department (represented here by DS and JDP) receive funding from bioMérieux for the development and evaluation of diagnostic products including culture media. RGM medium (commercially available as NTM Elite agar) is a proprietary product of bioMérieux, France. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.