About the Authors

Yi-Ting Fang

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

Shu-Wen Wan

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan, Center of Infectious Disease and Signaling Research, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Yi-Tien Lu

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

Ju-Han Yao

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Chiou-Feng Lin

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan, Center of Infectious Disease and Signaling Research, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan

Li-Jin Hsu

Affiliations Center of Infectious Disease and Signaling Research, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan

Michael G. Brown

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Jean S. Marshall

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Robert Anderson

roband@dal.ca (RA); yslin1@mail.ncku.edu.tw (YSL)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Yee-Shin Lin

roband@dal.ca (RA); yslin1@mail.ncku.edu.tw (YSL)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan, Center of Infectious Disease and Signaling Research, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YTF SWW YTL MGB JSM RA YSL. Performed the experiments: YTF SWW YTL JHY. Analyzed the data: YTF SWW YTL CFL JSM RA YSL. Wrote the paper: YTF SWW RA YSL. Helped in transmission electron microscopy (TEM): LJH.