About the Authors

Sheng-Kang Chiu

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Tsu-Lan Wu

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kweishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC

Yin-Ching Chuang

Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan Hsien, Taiwan, ROC

Jung-Chung Lin

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Chang-Phone Fung

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, National Yan-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Po-Liang Lu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC

Jann-Tay Wang

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Lih-Shinn Wang

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan, ROC

L. Kristopher Siu

Affiliation Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan, ROC

Kuo-Ming Yeh

kmyeh@ndmctsgh.edu.tw

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SKC TLW YCC JCL CPF PLL JTW LSW LKS KMY. Performed the experiments: SKC TLW PLL JTW LKS. Analyzed the data: SKC YCC CPF PLL LKS KMY. Wrote the paper: SKC JCL LKS KMY.