About the Authors

Han-Gyu Choi

Contributed equally to this work with: Han-Gyu Choi, Seunga Choi

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, and Medical Science, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 301-747, Republic of Korea

Seunga Choi

Contributed equally to this work with: Han-Gyu Choi, Seunga Choi

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, and Medical Science, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 301-747, Republic of Korea

Yong Woo Back

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, and Medical Science, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 301-747, Republic of Korea

Hye-Soo Park

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, and Medical Science, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 301-747, Republic of Korea

Hyun Shik Bae

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, and Medical Science, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 301-747, Republic of Korea

Chul Hee Choi

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, and Medical Science, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 301-747, Republic of Korea

Hwa-Jung Kim

hjukim@cnu.ac.kr

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, and Medical Science, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 301-747, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HGC SC HJK. Data curation: HGC SC. Formal analysis: HGC SC. Funding acquisition: HJK. Investigation: HGC SC YWB HSP HSB. Methodology: HGC SC YWB. Project administration: HJK. Resources: CHC HJK. Software: HGC SC. Supervision: HJK. Validation: HGC SC. Visualization: HGC SC. Writing – original draft: HGC SC HJK. Writing – review & editing: HGC SC HJK.