About the Authors

Shu-Hsing Cheng

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

‡ SHC and YCY contributed equally as 1st authors. FYC and YRL contributed equally as corresponding authors.

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan, School of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yu-Chen Yang

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ SHC and YCY contributed equally as 1st authors. FYC and YRL contributed equally as corresponding authors.

Affiliation Joint Biobank, Office of Human Research, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Cheng-Pin Chen

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan

Hui-Ting Hsieh

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Yi-Chun Lin

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chien-Yu Cheng

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Institute of Public Health, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan

Kuo-Sheng Liao

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Fang-Yeh Chu

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

jacpha@mail.femh.org.tw (FYC); d90444002@tmu.edu.tw (YRL)

‡ SHC and YCY contributed equally as 1st authors. FYC and YRL contributed equally as corresponding authors.

Affiliations Department of Clinical Pathology, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Graduate School of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Yuan Ze University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, School of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yun-Ru Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

jacpha@mail.femh.org.tw (FYC); d90444002@tmu.edu.tw (YRL)

‡ SHC and YCY contributed equally as 1st authors. FYC and YRL contributed equally as corresponding authors.

Affiliation Joint Biobank, Office of Human Research, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.