About the Authors

Hee-Chang Jang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hee-Chang Jang, Seung-Ji Kang

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwang-ju, Republic of Korea

Seung-Ji Kang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hee-Chang Jang, Seung-Ji Kang

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwang-ju, Republic of Korea

Su-Mi Choi

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwang-ju, Republic of Korea

Kyung-Hwa Park

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwang-ju, Republic of Korea

Jong-Hee Shin

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwang-ju, Republic of Korea

Hyon E. Choy

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwang-ju, Republic of Korea

Sook-In Jung

sijung@chonnam.ac.kr

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwang-ju, Republic of Korea

Hong Bin Kim

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HCJ. Performed the experiments: HCJ SJK SMC. Analyzed the data: HCJ SJK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KHP JHS HEC SIJ HBK. Wrote the paper: HCJ SJK SIJ.