A multi-site comparison of high-sensitivity multiplex cytokine assays 1 Running Title : Multi-site comparison of multiplex cytokine assays 2 3

Page 1 A multi-site comparison of high-sensitivity multiplex cytokine assays 1 Running Title: Multi-site comparison of multiplex cytokine assays 2 3 Elizabeth Crabb Breen, Sandra M. Reynolds, Christopher Cox, Lisa P. Jacobson, Larry 4 Magpantay, Candice B. Mulder, Oliver Dibben, Joseph B. Margolick, Jay H. Bream, Elise 5 Sambrano, Otoniel Martínez-Maza, Elizabeth Sinclair, Persephone Borrow, Alan L. 6 Landay, Charles R. Rinaldo, Philip J. Norris 7 8 Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, and Departments of Psychiatry and 9 Biobehavioral Sciences, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Microbiology, Immunology and 10 Molecular Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, 11 CA; Departments of Epidemiology and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns 12 Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; Rush University Medical Center, 13 Chicago, IL; Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United 14 Kingdom; Division of Experimental Medicine, and Departments of Medicine and Laboratory 15 Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA; Department of Epidemiology, School 16 of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; Department of Infectious 17 Diseases and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, 18 Pittsburgh, PA; Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, CA 19 Current affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, 20 NY 21 Copyright © 2011, American Society for Microbiology and/or the Listed Authors/Institutions. All Rights Reserved. Clin. Vaccine Immunol. doi:10.1128/CVI.05032-11 CVI Accepts, published online ahead of print on 22 June 2011