About the Authors

Jia-Yih Feng

Affiliations Department of Chest Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Wei-Juin Su

wjsu@vghtpe.gov.tw

Affiliations Department of Chest Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Yu-Chi Chiu

Affiliation Department of Chest Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Shiang-Fen Huang

Affiliation Department of Chest Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Yung-Yang Lin

Affiliations Institute of Clinical Medicine and Institute of Brain Science, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Department of Neurology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Ruay-Ming Huang

Affiliation Hua-Lien Hospital, Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Hua-Lien County, Taiwan, Republic of China

Ching-Hsiung Lin

Affiliation Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan, Republic of China

Jhi-Jhu Hwang

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China

Jen-Jyh Lee

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan, Republic of China

Ming-Chih Yu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Kwok-Woon Yu

Affiliation Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Yu-Chin Lee

Affiliations Department of Chest Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: J-YF W-JS Y-CC S-FH Y-YL Y-CL. Analyzed the data: J-YF W-JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: J-YF W-JS R-MH C-HL J-JH J-JL M-CY K-WY. Wrote the paper: J-YF.