About the Authors

Wei-Lun Liu

Affiliation Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center, Liouying, Tainan, Taiwan

Hsueh-Wen Liang

Affiliation Department of Nursing, Internal Medicine, and Intensive Care Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center, Liouying, Tainan, Taiwan

Mei-Feng Lee

Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan

Hsin-Lan Lin

Affiliation Department of Nursing, Internal Medicine, and Intensive Care Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center, Liouying, Tainan, Taiwan

Yu-Hsiu Lin

Affiliation The Committee of Infection Control, Chi Mei Medical Center, Liouying, Tainan, Taiwan

Chi-Chung Chen

Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan, Institute of Biotechnology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Ping-Chin Chang

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center, Liouying, Tainan, Taiwan

Chih-Cheng Lai

Affiliation Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center, Liouying, Tainan, Taiwan

Yin-Ching Chuang

Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center, Liouying, Tainan, Taiwan

Hung-Jen Tang

8409d1@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Health and Nutrition, Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Tainan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WLL HJT. Performed the experiments: WLL HWL HLL YHL PCC CCL MFL CCC YCC. Analyzed the data: YHL PCC CCL CCC YCC. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: CCL HJT.