About the Authors

Meng-Chuan Wu

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

Tzu-Lung Lin

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

Pei-Fang Hsieh

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

Hui-Ching Yang

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

Jin-Town Wang

wangjt@ntu.edu.tw

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: M-CW T-LL. Performed the experiments: M-CW H-CY. Analyzed the data: M-CW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: T-LL P-FH J-TW. Wrote the paper: M-CW T-LL J-TW.