About the Authors

Yu-Kuo Tsai

Affiliation Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan

Ci-Hong Liou

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Jung-Chung Lin

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Ling Ma

Affiliation Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan

Chang-Phone Fung

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital and National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Feng-Yee Chang

fychang@ndmctsgh.edu.tw (FYC); lksiu@nhri.org.tw (LKS)

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan Centres for Disease Control, Taipei, Taiwan

L. Kristopher Siu

fychang@ndmctsgh.edu.tw (FYC); lksiu@nhri.org.tw (LKS)

Affiliations Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Science, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YKT FYC LKS. Performed the experiments: YKT CHL. Analyzed the data: YKT CHL JCL FYC LKS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JCL LM CPF. Wrote the paper: YKT FYC LKS.