Contributors
Nichola-Jane M. Weir: Role: Data curationRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – original draft
Sally H. Pattison: Role: MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Paddy Kearney: Role: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
Bob Stafford: Role: MethodologyRole: Writing – review & editing
Gerard J. Gormley: Role: MethodologyRole: Writing – review & editing
Martin A. Crockard: Role: MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Deirdre F. Gilpin: Role: MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Michael M. Tunney: Role: MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Carmel M. Hughes: Role: MethodologyRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Sylvia Bruisten: Role: Editor
Journal
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
7
June
2018
Publication date Collection: 2018
Volume: 13
Issue: 6
Electronic Location Identifier: e0198595
Affiliations
[1
]
School of Pharmacy, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland
[2
]
Centre for Experimental Medicine, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland
[3
]
Northern Health and Social Care Trust, Bretten Hall, Antrim, Northern Ireland
[4
]
Orchard Carehomes, The Hamlet, Hornbeam Park, Harrogate England
[5
]
Department of General Practice, Queen’s University Belfast, Dunluce Health Centre,
Belfast, Ireland
[6
]
Randox Laboratories Ltd, Crumlin, Northern Ireland
GGD Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
Author notes
Competing Interests: M A Crockard is an employee of Randox Laboratories Ltd (Northern Ireland), a manufacturer
of molecular diagnostic tests. NJ Weir, S Pattison, D Gilpin, M Tunney and C Hughes
are working in collaboration with Randox Laboratories Ltd (Northern Ireland). This
does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The
other authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-17-23291
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0198595
PMC ID: 5991694
PubMed ID: 29879161
SO-VID: f46251b9-118c-42c4-aebb-9c9b1bc4ee70
Copyright © © 2018 Weir et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
History
Date
received
: 19
June
2017
Date
accepted
: 22
May
2018
Page count
Figures: 1,
Tables: 4,
Pages: 13
Funding
This study was supported by the Department for Employment and Learning (DEL), Northern
Ireland and Randox Laboratories Ltd, Northern Ireland as part of a PhD studentship.
The funder provided support in the form of salaries for author MC, but did not have
any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to
publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The specific roles of these authors are
articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section.
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