About the Authors

Richard Wargodsky

Contributed equally to this work with: Richard Wargodsky, Philip Dela Cruz

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Genomic Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Philip Dela Cruz

Contributed equally to this work with: Richard Wargodsky, Philip Dela Cruz

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

Affiliation Department Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

John LaFleur

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

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

David Yamane

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

Affiliations Department Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Emergency Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Justin Sungmin Kim

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Ivy Benjenk

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Eric Heinz

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Obinna Ome Irondi

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

Affiliation Department Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Katherine Farrar

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Ian Toma

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

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Genomic Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Clinical Research and Leadership The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America, True Bearing Diagnostics, Washington, DC, United States of America

Tristan Jordan

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

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Genomic Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Jennifer Goldman

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

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Genomic Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Timothy A. McCaffrey

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

mcc@gwu.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Genomic Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Clinical Research and Leadership The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America, True Bearing Diagnostics, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Competing Interests

TM and IT have an equity interest in True Bearing Diagnostics, Inc., a diagnostics company developing RNA biomarkers for various diseases, including coronary artery disease and internal infections. TM is seeking patent protection for technology related to the current studies. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors declare there are no competing interests.