About the Authors

Feng Xue

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Medical College, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

Haiyan Dong

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Medical College, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

Jinyu Wu

Affiliation Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics, Institute of Biomedical Informatics, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, China

Zuowei Wu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Weilin Hu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Medical College, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

Aihua Sun

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Medical College, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

Bryan Troxell

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

X. Frank Yang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Jie Yan

med_bp@zju.edu.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Medical College, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FX JY. Performed the experiments: FX HD ZW WH AS. Analyzed the data: FX JW XFY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FX JY. Wrote the paper: FX BT XFY JY.