About the Authors

Mei-Hui Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Mei-Hui Lin, Jen-Fen Fu

Affiliations Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Research Center for Pathogenic Bacteria, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Jen-Fen Fu

Contributed equally to this work with: Mei-Hui Lin, Jen-Fen Fu

Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, and Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences Taoyuan, Taiwan

Shih-Tung Liu

cgliu@mail.cgu.edu.tw

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Research Center for Pathogenic Bacteria, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MHL JFF STL. Performed the experiments: MHL JFF. Analyzed the data: MHL JFF STL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MHL JFF STL. Wrote the paper: MHL JFF STL.