About the Authors

Pai-Shan Chiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Pai-Shan Chiang, Mei-Liang Huang

Affiliation National Institutes of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan

Mei-Liang Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Pai-Shan Chiang, Mei-Liang Huang

Affiliation National Institutes of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan

Shu-Ting Luo

Affiliation National Institutes of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan

Tzou-Yien Lin

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Kuo-Chien Tsao

Affiliations Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Clinical Pathology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Min-Shi Lee

minshi.lee@hotmail.com

Affiliation National Institutes of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSL. Performed the experiments: PSC MLH STL KCT TYL. Analyzed the data: PSC MLH MSL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KCT TYL. Wrote the paper: PSC MSL.