About the Authors

Yik-Shun Lin

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

River Chun-Wai Wong

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong SAR, China

Jiaxin Yu

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation ASTAI, Taichung City, Taiwan

Kaichuang Yang

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Leo Chun-Hei Wong

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong SAR, China

Ho-Fung Leung

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Ingrid Yu-Ying Cheung

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong SAR, China

Viola Chi-Ying Chow

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong SAR, China

Ni Tien

Roles Conceptualization, Validation

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung City, Taiwan; Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, China Medical University, Taichung City, Taiwan

Bang-Jau You

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Chinese Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chinese Medicine Resources, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Christopher Koon-Chi Lai

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

chris.kclai@cuhk.edu.hk

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Margaret Ip

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.