About the Authors
- Benjamin A. Pinsky
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* E-mail: bpinsky@stanford.edu
Affiliations Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Malaya K. Sahoo
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Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Johanna Sandlund
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Affiliations Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Stanford Health Care and Stanford Children’s Health, Palo Alto, California, United States of America
- Marika Kleman
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Affiliation Cepheid, Solna, Sweden
- Medha Kulkarni
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Affiliation Cepheid, Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
- Per Grufman
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Affiliation Cepheid, Solna, Sweden
- Malin Nygren
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Affiliation Cepheid, Solna, Sweden
- Robert Kwiatkowski
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Affiliation Cepheid, Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
- Ellen Jo Baron
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Affiliation Cepheid, Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
- Fred Tenover
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Affiliation Cepheid, Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
- Blake Denison
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Affiliation Cepheid, Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
- Russell Higuchi
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Affiliation Cepheid, Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
- Reuel Van Atta
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Affiliation Cepheid, Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
- Neil Reginald Beer
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Affiliation Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States of America
- Alda Celena Carrillo
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Affiliation Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States of America
- Pejman Naraghi-Arani
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Affiliation Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States of America
- Chad E. Mire
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America
- Charlene Ranadheera
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Affiliation Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Allen Grolla
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Affiliation Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Nina Lagerqvist
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Affiliation The Public Health Agency of Sweden, Solna, Sweden
- David H. Persing
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Affiliation Cepheid, Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
Johanna Sandlund, Malaya K. Sahoo, Neil Reginald Beer, Alda Celena Carrillo, Pejman Naraghi-Arani, Chad E. Mire, Charlene Ranadheera, Allen Grolla, and Nina Lagerqvist and Benjamin A. Pinsky have no competing interests. Marika Kleman, Medha Kulkarni, Per Grufman, Malin Nygren, Robert Kwiatkowski, Ellen Jo Baron, Fred Tenover, Blake Denison, Russell Higuchi, Reuel Van Atta, and David H. Persing are employees of Cepheid and receive salary and equity interests in Cepheid. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: BAP MKS JS M. Kleman M. Kulkarni PG MN RK EJB RH RVA NRB ACC PNA CEM CR AG NL DHP. Performed the experiments: MKS JS M. Kleman M. Kulkarni PG MN RVA NRB ACC PNA CEM CR AG NL. Analyzed the data: BAP MKS JS M. Kleman M. Kulkarni PG MN RK EJB FT BD RH RVA NRB ACC PNA CEM CR AG NL DHP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BAP MKS JS M. Kleman M. Kulkarni PG MN RK EJB FT BD RH RVA NRB ACC PNA CEM CR AG NL DHP. Wrote the paper: BAP MKS JS M. Kleman M. Kulkarni PG MN RK EJB FT BD RH RVA NRB ACC PNA CEM CR AG NL DHP.