About the Authors

Yuan-Chang Dai

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuan-Chang Dai, Shou-Chieh Wang

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biopharmaceuticals, College of Life Sciences, National Chiayi University, Chiayi, Taiwan, Department of Pathology, Chiayi Christian Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan

Shou-Chieh Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuan-Chang Dai, Shou-Chieh Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kuang Tien General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Food Science, College of Life Sciences, National Chiayi University, Chiayi, Taiwan

Mohammad Mezbahul Haque

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biopharmaceuticals, College of Life Sciences, National Chiayi University, Chiayi, Taiwan

Wei-Han Lin

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biopharmaceuticals, College of Life Sciences, National Chiayi University, Chiayi, Taiwan

Lei-Chen Lin

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Forestry and Nature Resources, College of Agriculture, National Chiayi University, Chiayi, Taiwan

Ching-Hsein Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biopharmaceuticals, College of Life Sciences, National Chiayi University, Chiayi, Taiwan

Yi-Wen Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ywlss@mail.ncyu.edu.tw

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biopharmaceuticals, College of Life Sciences, National Chiayi University, Chiayi, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.