About the Authors

Huey-Pin Tsai

Affiliations Department of Pathology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

You-Yuan Tsai

Affiliation Department of Pathology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

I-Ting Lin

Affiliation Department of Pathology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

Pin-Hwa Kuo

Affiliation Department of Pathology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

Kung-Chao Chang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

Jung-Chin Chen

Affiliation Department of Pathology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

Wen-Chien Ko

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

Jen-Ren Wang

jrwang@mail.ncku.edu.tw

Affiliations Department of Pathology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Center of Infectious Disease and Signaling Research, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Tainan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HPT JRW. Formal analysis: HPT YYT. Funding acquisition: HPT JRW. Investigation: HPT YYT ITL PHK. Methodology: HPT. Project administration: HPT JRW. Resources: KCC JCC WCK JRW. Supervision: JRW. Visualization: HPT JRW. Writing – original draft: HPT. Writing – review & editing: HPT JRW.