About the Authors

Jieun Jang

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Gyeongnam Center for Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Changwon-si, Gyeongnam, Republic of Korea

Hyopin Jeong

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Gyeongnam Center for Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Changwon-si, Gyeongnam, Republic of Korea

Bong-Hwa Kim

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Gyeongnam Center for Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Changwon-si, Gyeongnam, Republic of Korea

Sura An

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Gyeongnam Center for Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Changwon-si, Gyeongnam, Republic of Korea

Hye-Ryun Yang

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Gyeongnam Center for Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Changwon-si, Gyeongnam, Republic of Korea

Sunjoo Kim

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

sjkim8239@hanmail.net

Affiliations Gyeongnam Center for Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Changwon-si, Gyeongnam, Republic of Korea, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Gyeongsang National University College of Medicine, Health Science Institute, Jinju-si, Gyeongnam, Republic of Korea, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Gyeongsang National University Changwon Hospital, Changwon-si, Gyeongnam, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.