About the Authors

Chung-Hsi Hsing

hsing@mail.chimei.org.tw (C-HH); cflin@mail.ncku.edu.tw (C-FL)

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Anesthesiology, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Ming-Chung Lin

Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Pui-Ching Choi

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Wei-Ching Huang

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Jui-In Kai

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Cheng-Chieh Tsai

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Nursing, Chung Hwa University of Medical Technology, Tainan, Taiwan

Yi-Lin Cheng

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Chia-Yuan Hsieh

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Chi-Yun Wang

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Yu-Ping Chang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Yu-Hong Chen

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Chia-Ling Chen

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Chiou-Feng Lin

hsing@mail.chimei.org.tw (C-HH); cflin@mail.ncku.edu.tw (C-FL)

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: C-HH M-CL C-LC C-FL. Performed the experiments: C-HH M-CL P-CC W-CH J-IK C-CT Y-LC C-YH C-YW Y-PC Y-HC. Analyzed the data: C-HH C-LC C-FL. Wrote the paper: C-HH C-FL.