About the Authors

Bettina Stieber

Bettina.Stieber@clondiag.com

Affiliations Alere Technologies GmbH, Jena, Germany, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, Infectognostics Forschungscampus Jena, Jena, Germany

Stefan Monecke

Affiliations Alere Technologies GmbH, Jena, Germany, Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, Infectognostics Forschungscampus Jena, Jena, Germany

Elke Müller

Affiliations Alere Technologies GmbH, Jena, Germany, Infectognostics Forschungscampus Jena, Jena, Germany

Joseph Büchler

Affiliation Alere San Diego, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Ralf Ehricht

Affiliations Alere Technologies GmbH, Jena, Germany, Infectognostics Forschungscampus Jena, Jena, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests: B. Stieber, S. Monecke, E. Muüller and R. Ehricht are employees of Alere Technologies, J. Buüchler is an employee of Alere San Diego and B. Stieber, S. Monecke, E. Muüller and R. Ehricht are affiliated to Infectognostics Forschungscampus. The system used herein might in the future be developed to be a commercial product. This does not affect the authors' adherence to all the PLOS policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BS RE. Performed the experiments: BS EM. Analyzed the data: BS EM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BS SM JB. Wrote the paper: BS SM RE.