About the Authors

Mey-Fann Lee

Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Tzu-Mei Lin

Affiliation Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Szu-Wei Liu

Affiliation Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Yi-Hsing Chen

ysanne@vghtc.gov.tw

Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YHC MFL. Performed the experiments: TML MFL SWL. Analyzed the data: YHC MFL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YHC MFL SWL. Wrote the paper: MFL YHC.