About the Authors

Lin Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lin Wang, Rong-Fu Chen

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung Medical Center (CGMH-KMC), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Rong-Fu Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Lin Wang, Rong-Fu Chen

Affiliation Department of Medical Research, CGMH-KMC, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Jien-Wei Liu

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, CGMH-KMC, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Ing-Kit Lee

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, CGMH-KMC, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chiu-Ping Lee

Affiliation Department of Medical Research, CGMH-KMC, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Ho-Chang Kuo

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung Medical Center (CGMH-KMC), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Shau-Ku Huang

Affiliation Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kuender D. Yang

yangkd@adm.cgmh.com.tw

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung Medical Center (CGMH-KMC), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, CGMH-KMC, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LW KDY. Performed the experiments: LW RFC CPL. Analyzed the data: LW RFC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JWL IKL HCK SKH. Wrote the paper: LW RFC KDY.