About the Authors

Nabin K. Shrestha

shrestn@ccf.org

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Clinical Pathology, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Sung H. Lim

Affiliation Specific Technologies, Mountain View, California, United States of America

Deborah A. Wilson

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pathology, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Ana Victoria SalasVargas

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Yair S. Churi

Affiliation Specific Technologies, Mountain View, California, United States of America

Paul A. Rhodes

Affiliation Specific Technologies, Mountain View, California, United States of America

Peter J. Mazzone

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Gary W. Procop

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pathology, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: SHL, YSC, and PAR are employees of, and have an interest in, Specific Technologies, which engineers and supplies CSAs. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: NKS SHL GWP PAR PJM. Data curation: SHL NKS YSC DAW. Formal analysis: SHL NKS PAR. Funding acquisition: NKS AVSV PAR GWP. Investigation: DAW AVSV. Methodology: NKS SHL DAW. Project administration: NKS AVSV. Resources: GWP PAR DAW SHL PJM. Software: YSC PAR. Supervision: NKS SHL GWP. Validation: NKS SHL DAW. Visualization: SHL. Writing – original draft: NKS SHL. Writing – review & editing: NKS SHL PAR GWP PJM.