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Correspondence: Hector Zambrano hzambrano@jbgye.org.ec
HZ conceived the investigation and supervised the experimental work and data analyses.
LR and JL performed the PCR experiments; JW and BP originally described the ZCD assay and provided the primers and probes for the PCR reactions.
NA and MR revised and analyzed the medical records of the patients.
NA prepared the database with integrated molecular and clinical data.
NA, HZ and JW analyzed the data.
NA, JW and HZ wrote the manuscript.
BP edited the manuscript.
All authors revised and approved the final version.
It is a pleasure to record our gratitude for the assistance extended to us, in the work reported here, by the hospital, laboratory, and administrative staff at Hospital Luis Vernaza for their work in caring for patients described herein.
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
The Salary support was provided by National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant K08AI110528 (JW).
©2017 Acevedo, Waggoner, Rodriguez, Rivera, Landivar, Pinsky and Zambrano.