About the Authors

Chuan-Tien Hung

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Biomedical Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, Research Center for Emerging Viral Infections, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan

Yu-An Kung

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Biomedical Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, Research Center for Emerging Viral Infections, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan

Mei-Ling Li

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, New Jersey, United States Of America

Gary Brewer

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, New Jersey, United States Of America

Kuo-Ming Lee

Affiliation Research Center for Emerging Viral Infections, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan

Shih-Tung Liu

cgliu@mail.cgu.edu.tw (STL); srshih@mail.cgu.edu.tw (SRS)

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Biomedical Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan

Shin-Ru Shih

cgliu@mail.cgu.edu.tw (STL); srshih@mail.cgu.edu.tw (SRS)

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Biomedical Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, Research Center for Emerging Viral Infections, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, Clinical Virology Laboratory, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan City, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CTH SRS. Formal analysis: CTH YAK. Methodology: CTH YAK MLL GB SRS. Validation: CTH YAK MLL KML. Visualization: CTH YAK SRS. Writing – original draft: CTH SRS. Writing – review & editing: STL.