Shankar-Hari, Manu http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5338-2538
Datta, Deepankar
Wilson, Julie
Assi, Valentina
Stephen, Jacqueline
Weir, Christopher J.
Rennie, Jillian
Antonelli, Jean
Bateman, Anthony
Felton, Jennifer M.
Warner, Noel
Judge, Kevin
Keenan, Jim
Wang, Alice
Burpee, Tony
Brown, Alun K.
Lewis, Sion M.
Mare, Tracey
Roy, Alistair I.
Wright, John
Hulme, Gillian
Dimmick, Ian
Gray, Alasdair
Rossi, Adriano G.
Simpson, A. John
Conway Morris, Andrew
Walsh, Timothy S.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Innovate UK (Sepsis 2: 101193)
Research Trainees Coordinating Centre (CS-2016-16-011)
Wellcome Trust (WT 2055214/Z/16/Z)
Article History
Received: 7 August 2018
Accepted: 24 September 2018
First Online: 5 October 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Noel Warner, Kevin Judge, Jim Keenen and Alice Wang were all employees of BD biosciences whilst this work was being undertaken, and all four authors hold stock in BD Biosciences. Prof Simpson collaborated with BDB on a Wellcome Trust/Department of Health-funded Healthcare Innovation Challenge Fund (HICF) grant in suspected ventilator-associated pneumonia. He is Director of the NIHR Newcastle In Vitro Diagnostic Evidence Co-operative (formerly the NIHR Newcastle Diagnostic Evidence Co-operative)—these entities exist to evaluate in vitro diagnostics and have worked with (and continue to work with) BDB and other companies in this capacity. All other authors declare that they do have any personal conflict of interest directly related to this manuscript.
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