About the Authors

Benjamin A. Pinsky

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

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Johanna Sandlund

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

Affiliation Cepheid, Solna, Sweden

Medha Kulkarni

Affiliation Cepheid, Sunnyvale, California, United States of America

Per Grufman

Affiliation Cepheid, Solna, Sweden

Malin Nygren

Affiliation Cepheid, Solna, Sweden

Robert Kwiatkowski

Affiliation Cepheid, Sunnyvale, California, United States of America

Ellen Jo Baron

Affiliation Cepheid, Sunnyvale, California, United States of America

Fred Tenover

Affiliation Cepheid, Sunnyvale, California, United States of America

Blake Denison

Affiliation Cepheid, Sunnyvale, California, United States of America

Russell Higuchi

Affiliation Cepheid, Sunnyvale, California, United States of America

Reuel Van Atta

Affiliation Cepheid, Sunnyvale, California, United States of America

Neil Reginald Beer

Affiliation Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States of America

Alda Celena Carrillo

Affiliation Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States of America

Pejman Naraghi-Arani

Affiliation Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States of America

Chad E. Mire

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

Charlene Ranadheera

Affiliation Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Allen Grolla

Affiliation Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Nina Lagerqvist

Affiliation The Public Health Agency of Sweden, Solna, Sweden

David H. Persing

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.