Research funding: None declared.
Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.
Ethical approval: The local Institutional Review Board deemed the study exempt from review.
Disclosures: Authorship includes members of the Diagnostic Immunology and Flow Cytometry Committee of the CAP. Chair: MAL, Vice-Chair: DDR. Current members: MAVW, SLF, MHW, RJB. Past members: JRG, MQA. Employees of CAP: TAL, CB.
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