About the Authors

Mey-Fann Lee

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Chi-Shen Wu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Tzu-Mei Lin

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Hou-Feng Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Hou-Feng Li, Yi-Hsing Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Entomology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, i-Center for Advanced Science and Technology (i CAST), National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Yi-Hsing Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Hou-Feng Li, Yi-Hsing Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

dr.yihsing@gmail.com

Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Center of Rheumatology and Immunology, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.