About the Authors

Sung-Ching Pan

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Jann-Tay Wang

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Center of Infection Control, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Yee-Chun Chen

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Center of Infection Control, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Yin-Yin Chang

Affiliation Center of Infection Control, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Mei-Ling Chen

Affiliation Center of Infection Control, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Shan-Chwen Chang

changsc@ntu.edu.tw

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JTW SCC YCC. Performed the experiments: YYC MLC. Analyzed the data: SCP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SCP. Wrote the paper: SCP.