About the Authors

Pele Chong

pelechong@nhri.org.tw (PC); georgeliu@nhri.org.tw (CCL)

Affiliations Vaccine R&D Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan Town, Miaoli County, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Immunology, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Meng-Shin Guo

Affiliation Vaccine R&D Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan Town, Miaoli County, Taiwan

Fion Hsiao-Yu Lin

Affiliation Vaccine R&D Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan Town, Miaoli County, Taiwan

Kuang-Nan Hsiao

Affiliation Vaccine R&D Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan Town, Miaoli County, Taiwan

Shu-Yang Weng

Affiliation Vaccine R&D Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan Town, Miaoli County, Taiwan

Ai-Hsiang Chou

Affiliation Vaccine R&D Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan Town, Miaoli County, Taiwan

Jen-Ren Wang

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Medicine National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Shih-Yang Hsieh

Affiliation Vaccine R&D Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan Town, Miaoli County, Taiwan

Ih-Jen Su

Affiliation Vaccine R&D Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan Town, Miaoli County, Taiwan

Chia-Chyi Liu

pelechong@nhri.org.tw (PC); georgeliu@nhri.org.tw (CCL)

Affiliation Vaccine R&D Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan Town, Miaoli County, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PC AHC IJS CCL. Performed the experiments: MSG FHYL KNH SYW AHC SYH CCL. Analyzed the data: PC AHC JRW IJS CCL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JRW AHC SYH. Wrote the paper: PC CCL.