About the Authors
- Paula King
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Affiliations FLIR Systems, Inc., La Jolla, California, United States of America, Singlera Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Long K. Pham
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Affiliation FLIR Systems, Inc., La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Shannon Waltz
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Affiliation FLIR Systems, Inc., La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Dan Sphar
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Affiliation FLIR Systems, Inc., La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Robert T. Yamamoto
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Affiliation Zova Systems, LLC, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Douglas Conrad
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, UC San Diego Health System, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Randy Taplitz
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Infection Prevention and Clinical Epidemiology Unit, UC San Diego Health System, San Diego, California, United States of America
- Francesca Torriani
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Infection Prevention and Clinical Epidemiology Unit, UC San Diego Health System, San Diego, California, United States of America
- R. Allyn Forsyth
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* E-mail: rforsyth@mail.sdsu.edu
Affiliations FLIR Systems, Inc., La Jolla, California, United States of America, Singlera Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Paula King, Long K. Pham, Shannon Waltz, Dan Sphar, Robert T. Yamamoto and R. Allyn Forsyth received payment from the commercial entity FLIR Systems, Inc. during the execution of the study. Paula King and R. Allyn Forsyth are currently employed by Singlera Genomics, Inc. where the authors completed editing of the manuscript. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: PK RTY RAF. Performed the experiments: PK LKP SW DS. Analyzed the data: PK DS RTY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RTY. Wrote the paper: PK LKP SW DS RTY DC RT FT RAF. Provided clinical oversight for the sample collections: DC RT FT.