About the Authors

Paula King

Affiliations FLIR Systems, Inc., La Jolla, California, United States of America, Singlera Genomics, Inc., La Jolla, California, United States of America

Long K. Pham

Affiliation FLIR Systems, Inc., La Jolla, California, United States of America

Shannon Waltz

Affiliation FLIR Systems, Inc., La Jolla, California, United States of America

Dan Sphar

Affiliation FLIR Systems, Inc., La Jolla, California, United States of America

Robert T. Yamamoto

Affiliation Zova Systems, LLC, San Diego, California, United States of America

Douglas Conrad

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, UC San Diego Health System, San Diego, California, United States of America

Randy Taplitz

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

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

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.