About the Authors

Ping-Sung Chiu

Affiliation Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Shih-Chan Lai

shih@csmu.edu.tw

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Clinical Laboratory, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interest exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: S-CL. Performed the experiments: P-SC. Analyzed the data: P-SC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: P-SC. Wrote the paper: S-CL.