About the Authors

Sheng-Kang Chiu

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Ming-Chin Chan

Affiliation Infection Control Office, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Li-Yueh Huang

Affiliation Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan, ROC

Yi-Tsung Lin

Affiliation Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, National Yan-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Jung-Chung Lin

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Po-Liang Lu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC

L. Kristopher Siu

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan, ROC, Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Science, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC

Feng-Yee Chang

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Kuo-Ming Yeh

kmyeh@ndmctsgh.edu.tw

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SKC KMY FYC. Data curation: YTL PLL LKS. Formal analysis: SKC MCC. Funding acquisition: JCL LKS. Investigation: SKC LYH KMY. Supervision: LKS FYC. Writing – original draft: SKC LYH. Writing – review & editing: FYC KMY.