About the Authors

Maojun Zhang

Affiliation Department of Communicable Disease Diagnostics (DCDD), Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Lihua He

Affiliation Department of Communicable Disease Diagnostics (DCDD), Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Qun Li

Affiliation Office for Disease Control and Emergency Response, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Honghe Sun

Affiliation Department of Applied Medical Science, Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), Beijing, China

Yixin Gu

Affiliation Department of Communicable Disease Diagnostics (DCDD), Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Yuanhai You

Affiliation Department of Communicable Disease Diagnostics (DCDD), Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Fanliang Meng

Affiliation Department of Communicable Disease Diagnostics (DCDD), Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Jianzhong Zhang

zhangjianzhong@icdc.cn

Affiliation Department of Communicable Disease Diagnostics (DCDD), Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MZ JZ. Performed the experiments: MZ HH YG FM. Analyzed the data: MZ HS YY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MZ LH YG HS YY FM JZ. Wrote the paper: NO. Collected the epidemic information for this MS: QL.