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¹ Department of Surgery, Kinmen Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Kinmen, Taiwan; Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
² Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Medical Biotechnology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
³ Department of Surgery, Kinmen Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Kinmen, Taiwan; Department of Emergency Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Institute of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁴ Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Institute of Medical Device and Imaging, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address: jctsai@ntu.edu.tw.

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Fon-Yih Tsuang et al. J Microbiol Immunol Infect. 2017 Aug.

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. 2017 Aug;50(4):549-551.

doi: 10.1016/j.jmii.2016.04.001. Epub 2016 May 13.

¹ Department of Surgery, Kinmen Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Kinmen, Taiwan; Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
² Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Medical Biotechnology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
³ Department of Surgery, Kinmen Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Kinmen, Taiwan; Department of Emergency Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Institute of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁴ Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Institute of Medical Device and Imaging, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address: jctsai@ntu.edu.tw.

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