Ho, Cheng-Maw https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1874-7615
Lee, Chih-Hsin
Lee, Ming-Chia
Zhang, Jun-Fu
Wang, Jann-Yuan
Hu, Rey-Heng
Lee, Po-Huang
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (MOST104-2321-B-002-058)
Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW105-CDC-C-114-00103)
Article History
Received: 23 June 2017
Accepted: 22 March 2018
First Online: 10 April 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
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