About the Authors

Wen-Yang Tsai

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Szu-Chia Hsieh

Affiliations Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, Pacific Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Chih-Yun Lai

Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Hong-En Lin

Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Vivek R. Nerurkar

Affiliations Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, Pacific Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Wei-Kung Wang

wangwk@hawaii.edu

Affiliations Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, Pacific Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WYT WKW. Performed the experiments: WYT SCH CYL HEL. Analyzed the data: WYT WKW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WYT SCH CYL HEL VRN. Wrote the paper: WYT WKW.