About the Authors
- Surbhi Jain
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Ting-Tsung Chang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ting-Tsung Chang, James P. Hamilton
Affiliation Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Signaling Research Center, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China
- James P. Hamilton
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ting-Tsung Chang, James P. Hamilton
Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Selena Y. Lin
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Yih-Jyh Lin
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China
- Alison A. Evans
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Affiliation School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Florin M. Selaru
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Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Pin- Wen Lin
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Affiliation Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China
- Shun-Hua Chen
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Medical College, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China
- Timothy M. Block
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Chi-Tan Hu
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Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan, Republic of China
- Wei Song
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Affiliation JBS Science Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Stephen J. Meltzer
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Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Ying-Hsiu Su
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* E-mail: Ying-hsiu.Su@drexelmed.edu
Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Competing Interests
WS, President of the JBS Science Inc. The affiliation of WS with JBS Science Inc. does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SJ T-TC Y-HS SM WS TB. Performed the experiments: SJ SL. Analyzed the data: AE SJ Y-HS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SM T-TC JH Y-JL FS P-WL S-HC C-TH. Wrote the paper: SJ Y-HS SM TB.