About the Authors

Hsin-Yun Sun

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Chien-Yu Cheng

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Tao-Yuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan

Nan-Yao Lee

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital and College of Medicine, Tainan, Taiwan

Chia-Jui Yang

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Shiou-Haur Liang

Affiliation Department of Medicine, E-Da Hospital/I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Mao-Song Tsai

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Wen-Chien Ko

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital and College of Medicine, Tainan, Taiwan

Wen-Chun Liu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Pei-Ying Wu

Affiliation Center for Infection Control, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Cheng-Hsin Wu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Hsi-Hsun Lin

hcc0401@ntu.edu.tw (C-CH); ed100233@yahoo.com.tw (H-HL)

Affiliation Department of Medicine, E-Da Hospital/I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chien-Ching Hung

hcc0401@ntu.edu.tw (C-CH); ed100233@yahoo.com.tw (H-HL)

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: H-YS W-CK H-HL C-CH. Performed the experiments: W-CL P-YW C-HW. Analyzed the data: H-YS C-YC N-YL C-JY S-HL M-ST W-CL P-YW C-HW. Wrote the paper: H-YS H-HL C-CH.