Published on in Vol 4 , No 3 (2018) :Jul-Sept

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/9876, first published .
Lindsay Meyers 1 , BS ;   Christine C Ginocchio 1, 2, 3 , PhD ;   Aimie N Faucett 1 , MS ;   Frederick S Nolte 4 , PhD ;   Per H Gesteland 5 , MD, MS ;   Amy Leber 6 , PhD ;   Diane Janowiak 7 , BS, MT (ASCP) ;   Virginia Donovan 8 , MD ;   Jennifer Dien Bard 9, 10 , PhD, D(ABMM) ;   Silvia Spitzer 11 , PhD ;   Kathleen A Stellrecht 12 , PhD ;   Hossein Salimnia 13 , PhD ;   Rangaraj Selvarangan 14 , BVSc, PhD, D(ABMM) ;   Stefan Juretschko 15 , PhD ;   Judy A Daly 16 , PhD ;   Jeremy C Wallentine 17 , MD ;   Kristy Lindsey 18 , BSc (Health) ;   Franklin Moore 18 , MD ;   Sharon L Reed 19 , MD ;   Maria Aguero-Rosenfeld 20 , MD ;   Paul D Fey 21 , BS, PhD, D(ABMM) ;   Gregory A Storch 22 , MD ;   Steve J Melnick 23 , MD, PhD ;   Christine C Robinson 24 , PhD ;   Jennifer F Meredith 25 , PhD ;   Camille V Cook 1 , BS ;   Robert K Nelson 1 , BS ;   Jay D Jones 1 , MS ;   Samuel V Scarpino 26 , PhD ;   Benjamin M Althouse 27, 28 , ScM, PhD ;   Kirk M Ririe 29 , BS ;   Bradley A Malin 30 , PhD ;   Mark A Poritz 31 , PhD

1 BioFire Diagnostics , Salt Lake City , UT , US

2 Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine , Hempstead , NY , US

3 bioMérieux USA , Durham , NC , US

4 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine , Medical University of South Carolina , Charleston , SC , US

5 Departments of Pediatrics and Biomedical Informatics , University of Utah School of Medicine , Salt Lake City , UT , US

6 Laboratory of Microbiology and Immunoserology , Department of Laboratory Medicine , Nationwide Children's Hospital , Columbus , OH , US

7 Department of Lab Operations , South Bend Medical Foundation , South Bend , IN , US

8 Department of Pathology , New York University Winthrop Hospital , Mineola , NY , US

9 Keck School of Medicine , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , CA , US

10 Clinical Microbiology and Virology Laboratory , Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine , Children's Hospital of Los Angeles , Los Angeles , CA , US

11 Molecular Genetics Laboratory , Stony Brook University Medical Center , Stony Brook , NY , US

12 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine , Albany Medical Center , Albany , NY , US

13 Department of Pathology , Wayne State University School of Medicine , Detroit , MI , US

14 Clinical Microbiology, Virology and Molecular Infectious Diseases Laboratory , Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine , Children's Mercy Hospital , Kansas City , MO , US

15 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine , Division of Infectious Disease Diagnostics , Northwell Health , Lake Success , NY , US

16 Department of Pathology , University of Utah School of Medicine , Salt Lake City , UT , US

17 Department of Pathology , Intermountain Medical Center , Murray , UT , US

18 Laboratory of Microbiology , University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate , Springfield , MA , US

19 Department of Pathology and Medicine , Divisions of Clinical Pathology and Infectious Diseases , UC San Diego , San Diego , CA , US

20 Department of Clinical Laboratories , New York University Langone Health , New York , NY , US

21 Department of Pathology and Microbiology , University of Nebraska Medical Center , Omaha , NE , US

22 Department of Pediatrics , Washington University , St. Louis , MO , US

23 Department of Pathology and Clinical Laboratories , Nicklaus Children's Hospital , Miami , FL , US

24 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine , Microbiology/Virology Laboratory Section , Children's Hospital Colorado , Aurora , CO , US

25 Department of Laboratory Services , Microbiology Section , Greenville Health System , Greenville , SC , US

26 Northeastern University , Boston , MA , US

27 New Mexico State University , Las Cruces , NM , US

28 Department of Neurological Surgery , University of Washington , Seattle , WA , US

29 bioMérieux , Salt Lake City , UT , US

30 Department of Biomedical Informatics , School of Medicine , Vanderbilt University , Nashville , TN , US

31 BioFire Defense , Salt Lake City , UT , US

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