About the Authors

Ing-Kit Lee

leee@cgmh.org.tw

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, 833, Taiwan, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Tao-Yuan, 333, Taiwan

Jien-Wei Liu

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, 833, Taiwan, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Tao-Yuan, 333, Taiwan

Yen-Hsu Chen

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, 833, Taiwan, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, 833, Taiwan

Yi-Chun Chen

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, 833, Taiwan

Ching-Yen Tsai

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, 833, Taiwan

Shi-Yu Huang

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, 833, Taiwan

Chun-Yu Lin

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, 833, Taiwan

Chung-Hao Huang

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, 833, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IKL. Performed the experiments: IKL. Analyzed the data: IKL JWL YHC YCC CYT SYH CYL CHH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IKL JWL YHC YCC CYT SYH CYL CHH. Wrote the paper: IKL.