About the Authors

Xiaomei Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaomei Wang, Chunfeng Zhu

Affiliations Institute of Virology and AIDS Research, First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin Province, China, Department of Hepatology, First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin Province, China

Chunfeng Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaomei Wang, Chunfeng Zhu

Affiliation Institute of Virology and AIDS Research, First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin Province, China

Wanguo Bao

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin Province, China

Ke Zhao

Affiliation Institute of Virology and AIDS Research, First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin Province, China

Junqi Niu

zhangwenyan@jlu.edu.cn (WZ); xfyu@jhsph.edu (X-FY); junqiniu@yahoo.com.cn (JN)

Affiliation Department of Hepatology, First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin Province, China

Xiao-Fang Yu

zhangwenyan@jlu.edu.cn (WZ); xfyu@jhsph.edu (X-FY); junqiniu@yahoo.com.cn (JN)

Affiliation Institute of Virology and AIDS Research, First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin Province, China

Wenyan Zhang

zhangwenyan@jlu.edu.cn (WZ); xfyu@jhsph.edu (X-FY); junqiniu@yahoo.com.cn (JN)

Affiliation Institute of Virology and AIDS Research, First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XFY WZ XW. Performed the experiments: XW CZ. Analyzed the data: WZ XFY XW KZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WZ JN KZ. Wrote the paper: WZ XFY XW. Obtained clinical samples: WB JN. Sequence analysis: XW CZ.