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
- Sitong Chen
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Contributed equally to this work with: Sitong Chen, Kung-Chao Chang, Yih-Jyh Lin, Chi-Tan Hu
Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Kung-Chao Chang
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Contributed equally to this work with: Sitong Chen, Kung-Chao Chang, Yih-Jyh Lin, Chi-Tan Hu
Affiliation Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China
- Yih-Jyh Lin
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Contributed equally to this work with: Sitong Chen, Kung-Chao Chang, Yih-Jyh Lin, Chi-Tan Hu
Affiliation Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China
- Chi-Tan Hu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Sitong Chen, Kung-Chao Chang, Yih-Jyh Lin, Chi-Tan Hu
Affiliation Department of Medicine, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital and Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan, Republic of China
- Batbold Boldbaatar
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- James P. Hamilton
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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
- Selena Y. Lin
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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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Affiliation Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, 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
- Wei Song
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Affiliation JBS Science Inc., Doylestown, 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
- Timothy M. Block
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 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
The authors have the following competing interest: Wei Song is employed by a commercial company, JBS Science Inc.,Doylestown, PA. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: YHS SJ. Performed the experiments: SJ SC BB SYL. Analyzed the data: SJ YHS SC WS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CTH JPH TTC KCC SHC SJM YJL. Wrote the paper: SJ YHS TMB.