About the Authors
- Sheng-Kang Chiu
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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
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Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kweishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC
- Yin-Ching Chuang
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Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan Hsien, Taiwan, ROC
- Jung-Chung Lin
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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
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Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, National Yan-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
- Po-Liang Lu
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Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC
- Jann-Tay Wang
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Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
- Lih-Shinn Wang
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan, ROC
- L. Kristopher Siu
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Affiliation Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan, ROC
- Kuo-Ming Yeh
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* E-mail: 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.