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About the Authors
- Huong Duong
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Nucleic Acid Diagnostics Research Laboratory (NADRL), School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
- Elizabeth Minogue
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Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Nucleic Acid Diagnostics Research Laboratory (NADRL), School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
- Shannon Fullbrook
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Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Nucleic Acid Diagnostics Research Laboratory (NADRL), School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
- Thomas Barry
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Nucleic Acid Diagnostics Research Laboratory (NADRL), School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
- Kate Reddington
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: kate.reddington@universityofgalway.ie
Affiliation Microbial Diagnostics Research Laboratory, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
Competing Interests
Kate Reddington, Elizabeth Minogue and Thomas Barry are named inventors on a USA granted patent (US20180155766) which incorporates the use of the smpB gene as a microbial NAD target. A smpB nucleotide sequence is the Bcc NAD target used in this study. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.