Identifying volatile metabolite signatures for the diagnosis of bacterial respiratory tract infection using electronic nose technology: A pilot study

Joseph M. Lewis; Richard S. Savage; Nicholas J. Beeching; Mike B. J. Beadsworth; Nicholas Feasey; James A. Covington

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0188879

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Identifying volatile metabolite signatures for the diagnosis of bacterial respiratory tract infection using electronic nose technology: A pilot study

Joseph M. Lewis ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: joseph.lewis@lstmed.ac.uk

Affiliations Tropical and Infectious Disease Unit, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Wellcome Trust Liverpool Glasgow Centre for Global Health Research, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3837-5188

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Richard S. Savage,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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Nicholas J. Beeching,

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Tropical and Infectious Disease Unit, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Mike B. J. Beadsworth,

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Tropical and Infectious Disease Unit, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Nicholas Feasey ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicholas Feasey, James A. Covington

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Tropical and Infectious Disease Unit, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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James A. Covington

Contributed equally to this work with: Nicholas Feasey, James A. Covington

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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Identifying volatile metabolite signatures for the diagnosis of bacterial respiratory tract infection using electronic nose technology: A pilot study

Joseph M. Lewis,
Richard S. Savage,
Nicholas J. Beeching,
Mike B. J. Beadsworth,
Nicholas Feasey,
James A. Covington

Published: December 18, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188879

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