About the Authors

Yi-Wen Lin

Affiliations Institute of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, Taiwan, Graduate Program of Biotechnology in Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Shu-Ling Yu

Affiliation Institute of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, Taiwan

Hsiao-Yun Shao

Affiliation Institute of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, Taiwan

Hsiang-Yin Lin

Affiliation Institute of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, Taiwan

Chia-Chyi Liu

Affiliation Institute of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, Taiwan

Kuang-Nan Hsiao

Affiliation Institute of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, Taiwan

Ebenezer Chitra

Current address: School of Medical Sciences, Division of Human Biology, International Medical University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Affiliation Institute of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, Taiwan

Yueh-Liang Tsou

Affiliation Institute of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, Taiwan

Hsuen-Wen Chang

Affiliation Institute of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, Taiwan

Charles Sia

Affiliations Institute of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Immunology, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Pele Chong

address: pelechong@nhri.org.tw (PC); choeyenh@nhri.org.tw (YHC)

Affiliations Institute of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Immunology, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Yen-Hung Chow

address: pelechong@nhri.org.tw (PC); choeyenh@nhri.org.tw (YHC)

Affiliation Institute of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Miaoli County, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

edited the manuscript: EC CS. Conceived and designed the experiments: YHC PC. Performed the experiments: YWL SLY HYL HYS. Analyzed the data: YHC YWL PC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CCL KNH HWC YLT. Wrote the paper: YHC.