About the Authors

Asiimwe Nicholas

Contributed equally to this work with: Asiimwe Nicholas, Yu Kyung Kim

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Yu Kyung Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Asiimwe Nicholas, Yu Kyung Kim

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yeungnam University College of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Won-Kil Lee

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Gati Noble Selasi

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Seok Hyeon Na

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Hyo Il Kwon

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Yoo Jeong Kim

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Hae Sook Lee

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Kyung Eun Song

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Jeong Hwan Shin

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Inje University College of Medicine, Busan, Republic of Korea

Je Chul Lee

leejc@knu.ac.kr

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AN YKK WKL JCL. Investigation: GNS SHN HIK YJK. Methodology: YKK WKL. Resources: HSL KES JHS. Writing – original draft: AN YKK. Writing – review & editing: WKL JCL.