About the Authors

Ting-Yi Chiang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Tuberculosis Research Center, Centers for Disease Control, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., Research and Diagnostic Center, Centers for Disease Control, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Shin-Yuan Fan

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Tuberculosis Research Center, Centers for Disease Control, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., Research and Diagnostic Center, Centers for Disease Control, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Ruwen Jou

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rwj@cdc.gov.tw

Affiliations Tuberculosis Research Center, Centers for Disease Control, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., Research and Diagnostic Center, Centers for Disease Control, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.