About the Authors

An-Jing Kuo

Contributed equally to this work with: An-Jing Kuo, Lin-Hui Su

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC, Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC

Lin-Hui Su

Contributed equally to this work with: An-Jing Kuo, Lin-Hui Su

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC, Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC

Jwu-Ching Shu

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

Jann-Tay Wang

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Jen-Hsien Wang

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC

Chang-Phone Fung

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

Ju-Hsin Chia

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC, Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC

Jang-Jih Lu

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC, Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC

Tsu-Lan Wu

wutsulan@adm.cgmh.org.tw

Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC, Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AJK LHS JCS JTW JHW CPF JHC JJL TLW. Performed the experiments: AJK LHS JCS TLW. Analyzed the data: AJK LHS JCS TLW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AJK LHS JCS JTW JHW CPF JHC JJL TLW. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: AJK LHS TLW.