About the Authors

Megan L. Lloyd

m.lloyd@ecu.edu.au

Affiliations School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia, Marshall Centre for Infectious Diseases Research and Training, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia, School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia

Nurul Hod

Affiliation School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

Jothsna Jayaraman

Affiliation School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

Elizabeth A. Marchant

Affiliations School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia, Now at the Department of Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Lukas Christen

Affiliations School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia, Carag AG, Baar, Switzerland

Peter Chiang

Affiliation School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

Peter Hartmann

Affiliation School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

Geoffrey R. Shellam

† Deceased.

Affiliations School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia, Marshall Centre for Infectious Diseases Research and Training, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

Karen Simmer

Affiliations School of Paediatrics and Child Health, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia, Centre for Neonatal Research and Education, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Neonatal Clinical Care Unit, King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Competing Interests

Lukas Christen received a postgraduate scholarship from Carag AG, Baar Switzerland. The experimental set up for this study was filed for an Australian provisional patent application with the title “Apparatus and methods for Pasteurization of Human Milk” Application no 2012905577. Filing date 18 December 2012, applicant is Carag AG, Bahnhofstrasse 9, Baar, Switzerland. Peter Hartmann received an unrestricted research grant from Medela AG (Switzerland). Neither company had input in designing or conducting the study or the decision to publish the manuscript. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MLL PH GRS KS. Data curation: MLL. Formal analysis: MLL NH JJ EAM PC. Funding acquisition: MLL GRS PH KS. Investigation: MLL NH JJ EAM PC. Methodology: MLL LC PH GRS. Project administration: MLL GRS KS. Resources: MLL LC PH GRS KS. Supervision: MLL GRS PH. Validation: MLL. Visualization: MLL NH JJ EAM PC. Writing - original draft: MLL. Writing - review & editing: MLL NH JJ EAM LC PC PH GRS KS.