About the Authors

Lisa Mellhammar

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa Mellhammar, Louise Thelaus

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

lisa.mellhammar@med.lu.se

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Division of Infection Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Louise Thelaus

Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa Mellhammar, Louise Thelaus

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

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Division of Infection Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Sixten Elén

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Division of Infection Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Jane Fisher

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

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Division of Infection Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Adam Linder

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

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Division of Infection Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Competing Interests

Adam Linder is listed as inventors on a patent on the use of HBP as a diagnostic tool in sepsis filed by Hansa Medical AB WO2008151808A1. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All other authors have declared no relevant conflicts of interest.