About the Authors

Yuan-Chang Dai

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biopharmaceuticals, College of Life Sciences, National Chiayi University, Chiayi City, Taiwan, Department of Pathology, Ditmanson Medical Foundation Chiayi Christian Hospital, Chiayi City, Taiwan, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Ditmanson Medical Foundation Chiayi Christian Hospital, Chiayi City, Taiwan

Chuan-Yin Fang

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Colorectal Surgery, Ditmanson Medical Foundation Chiayi Christian Hospital, Chiayi City, Taiwan

Hsin-Yi Yang

Roles Methodology, Software

Affiliation Clinical Medicine Research Center, Ditmanson Medical Foundation Chiayi Christian Hospital, Chiayi City, Taiwan

Yi-Jun Jian

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Ditmanson Medical Foundation Chiayi Christian Hospital, Chiayi City, Taiwan

Shou-Chieh Wang

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biopharmaceuticals, College of Life Sciences, National Chiayi University, Chiayi City, Taiwan, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kuang Tien General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Yi-Wen Liu

Roles 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 City, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.