Chih-Min Tsai:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5267-9594
Role: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: ValidationRole: Writing
– original draft
Chi-Hsiang Chu:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7883-377X
Role: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: SoftwareRole: Validation
Xi Liu: Role: MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: Validation
Ken-Pen Weng: Role: MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: Validation
Shih-Feng Liu: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Investigation
Ying-Hsien Huang: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
Project administrationRole: Writing – original draft
Ho-Chang Kuo: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole:
Writing – review & editing
Colin Johnson: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS One
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
22
January
2021
Publication date Collection: 2021
Volume: 16
Issue: 1
Electronic Location Identifier: e0244721
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Pediatrics, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University
College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
[2
]
Department of Statistics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
[3
]
Department of Pediatrics, Baoan Women's and Children's Hospital, Jinan University,
Shenzhen, China
[4
]
Department of Pediatrics, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
[5
]
Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
[6
]
Department of Respiratory Therapy, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung,
Taiwan
[7
]
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine,
Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, and Chang Gung University College of Medicine,
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
[8
]
Kawasaki Disease Center, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Oregon State University, UNITED STATES
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-20-24219
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0244721
PMC ID: 7822339
PubMed ID: 33481812
SO-VID: 7e684a2a-d83e-4689-9022-fb5bbecb2a9a
Copyright © © 2021 Tsai et al
License:
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the original author and source are credited.
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004663, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan;
Award ID: MOST 108-2314-B-182 -037 -MY3
Award Recipient
:
Ho-Chang Kuo
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004663, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan;
Award ID: MOST 103-2410-H-264-004
Award Recipient
:
Ho-Chang Kuo
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100012553, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital;
Award ID: 8E0212
Award Recipient
:
Ho-Chang Kuo
This study received funding from the following grants: MOST 108-2314-B-182 -037 -MY3
and MOST 103-2410-H-264-004 from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan
and 8E0212 from Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan. Although these institutes provided
financial support, they had no influence on the way in which we collected, analyzed,
or interpreted the data or wrote this manuscript.
Subject:
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Subject:
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Subject:
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Subject:
Animal Cells
Subject:
Blood Cells
Subject:
White Blood Cells
Subject:
Eosinophils
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Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Cell Biology
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Cellular Types
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Animal Cells
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Immune Cells
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White Blood Cells
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Immune Cells
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White Blood Cells
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Eosinophils
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Platelets
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Body Fluids
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Blood
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Platelets
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Animal Cells
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Blood Cells
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Platelets
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