About the Authors

Sen-Mao Tien

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

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

Po-Chun Chang

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Leadgene Biomedical, Inc. Tainan, Taiwan

Yen-Chung Lai

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Leadgene Biomedical, Inc. Tainan, Taiwan, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Yung-Chun Chuang

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliations Leadgene Biomedical, Inc. Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Chin-Kai Tseng

Roles Methodology

Affiliation SIDSCO Biomedical Co., Ltd. Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Yu-San Kao

Roles Methodology

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

Hong-Jyun Huang

Roles Methodology

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

Yu-Peng Hsiao

Roles Methodology

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

Yi-Ling Liu

Roles Methodology

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

Hsing-Han Lin

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, SIDSCO Biomedical Co., Ltd. Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chien-Chou Chu

Roles Methodology

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

Miao-Huei Cheng

Roles Methodology

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

Tzong-Shiann Ho

Roles Supervision

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Center of Infectious Disease and Signaling Research, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Chih-Peng Chang

Roles Supervision

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

Shu-Fen Ko

Roles Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Development Center for Biotechnology, Taipei, Taiwan

Che-Piao Shen

Roles Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Development Center for Biotechnology, Taipei, Taiwan

Robert Anderson

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

Yee-Shin Lin

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – original draft

yslin1@mail.ncku.edu.tw (YSL); swwan@gs.ncku.edu.tw (SWW); today@mail.ncku.edu.tw (TMY)

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

Shu-Wen Wan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – original draft

yslin1@mail.ncku.edu.tw (YSL); swwan@gs.ncku.edu.tw (SWW); today@mail.ncku.edu.tw (TMY)

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

Trai-Ming Yeh

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – original draft

yslin1@mail.ncku.edu.tw (YSL); swwan@gs.ncku.edu.tw (SWW); today@mail.ncku.edu.tw (TMY)

Affiliations Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, 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.