About the Authors

Ryan J. Farr

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

Affiliation CSIRO Health & Biosecurity, Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Christina L. Rootes

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation CSIRO Health & Biosecurity, Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Louise C. Rowntree

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Thi H. O. Nguyen

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Luca Hensen

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Lukasz Kedzierski

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Allen C. Cheng

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliations School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Infection Prevention and Healthcare Epidemiology Unit, Alfred Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Katherine Kedzierska

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Global Station for Zoonosis Control, Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education (GI-CoRE), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Gough G. Au

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation CSIRO Health & Biosecurity, Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Glenn A. Marsh

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation CSIRO Health & Biosecurity, Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Seshadri S. Vasan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations CSIRO Health & Biosecurity, Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness, Geelong, Victoria, Australia, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, United Kingdom

Chwan Hong Foo

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Exios Bio LLC, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Christopher Cowled

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation CSIRO Health & Biosecurity, Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Cameron R. Stewart

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

cameron.stewart@csiro.au

Affiliation CSIRO Health & Biosecurity, Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: CSIRO and Exios Bio have filed a provisional patent (docket no.380.35.0001U1) around the use of microRNAs for the early detection of COVID-19. R.J.F., C.C., C.H.F. and C.R.S. are inventors on the patent. The patent relates to microRNAs associated with detection of early-stage COVID-19 (data shown in Figs 2 and 3 in the present study).