About the Authors

Yi-An Chen

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Wen-Chin Chiu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software

Affiliation School of Medicine, College of Medicine, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Tzu-Yun Wang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Hin-chung Wong

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ HCW and CTT are contributed equally to this work as co-corresponding authors.

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Chung-Tao Tang

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

TCT0920@isu.edu.tw

‡ HCW and CTT are contributed equally to this work as co-corresponding authors.

Affiliation School of Medicine for International Students, College of Medicine, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.