About the Authors

Yi-Jen Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Jen Chen, Shih-Cheng Chang, Kuo-Chien Tsao

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Shih-Cheng Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Jen Chen, Shih-Cheng Chang, Kuo-Chien Tsao

Affiliations Research Center for Emerging Viral Infections, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Kuo-Chien Tsao

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Jen Chen, Shih-Cheng Chang, Kuo-Chien Tsao

Affiliations Research Center for Emerging Viral Infections, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Shin-Ru Shih

Affiliations Research Center for Emerging Viral Infections, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Shu-Li Yang

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Tzou-Yien Lin

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Research Center for Emerging Viral Infections, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Yhu-Chering Huang

ychuang@cgmh.org.tw

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Research Center for Emerging Viral Infections, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interest exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YCH KCT SRS TYL. Performed the experiments: SCC KCT SLY. Analyzed the data: YJC SCC SRS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SRS KCT. Wrote the paper: YJC SCC YCH.