About the Authors

Fong-Shue Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: Fong-Shue Chang, Yao-Ting Tseng

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Microbiology and Public Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Yao-Ting Tseng

Contributed equally to this work with: Fong-Shue Chang, Yao-Ting Tseng

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Statistics and Information Science, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan

Pi-Shan Hsu

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Taichung Hospital, Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taiwan, R.O.C

Chaur-Dong Chen

Affiliation Department of Health, Kaohsiung City Government, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

Ie-Bin Lian

maiblian@cc.ncue.edu.tw (IBL); dychao@nchu.edu.tw (DYC)

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Statistics and Information Science, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan

Day-Yu Chao

maiblian@cc.ncue.edu.tw (IBL); dychao@nchu.edu.tw (DYC)

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Microbiology and Public Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IBL DYC. Performed the experiments: FSC YTT. Analyzed the data: FSC DYC YTT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PSH CDC IBL. Wrote the paper: IBL DYC.