About the Authors

Basit Yousuf

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

Affiliations Medical Affairs and Innovation, Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Roya Pasha

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Affairs and Innovation, Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, Canada

Nicolas Pineault

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Medical Affairs and Innovation, Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Sandra Ramirez-Arcos

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

sandra.ramirez@blood.ca

Affiliations Medical Affairs and Innovation, Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.