About the Authors

Shang-Yi Lin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Sepsis Research Center, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Hung-Pin Tu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Environmental Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Tun-Chieh Chen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Mei-Chiou Shen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Yi-Wen Chiu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Yen-Hsu Chen

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

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Sepsis Research Center, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Po-Liang Lu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Sepsis Research Center, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.