About the Authors

Susanna S. S. Ng

Contributed equally to this work with: Susanna S. S. Ng, Tat-On Chan, David S. C. Hui

Affiliation Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong

Tat-On Chan

Contributed equally to this work with: Susanna S. S. Ng, Tat-On Chan, David S. C. Hui

Affiliation Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong

Kin-Wang To

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong

Ken K. P. Chan

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong

Jenny Ngai

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong

Alvin Tung

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong

Fanny W. S. Ko

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong

David S. C. Hui

Contributed equally to this work with: Susanna S. S. Ng, Tat-On Chan, David S. C. Hui

dschui@cuhk.edu.hk

Affiliation Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SSN DSH. Analyzed the data: TOC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KWT KKC JN AT FWK. Wrote the paper: SSN DSH.