About the Authors

Zhenling Cui

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Medical School, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Jie Wang

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Medical School, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Changtai Zhu

Affiliations Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Medical School, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Changzhou Tumor Hospital, Soochow University, Changzhou, China

Xiaochen Huang

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Medical School, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Junmei Lu

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Medical School, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Qing Wang

Affiliation Anhui Province Chest Hospital, Hefei, China

Zhongnan Chen

Affiliation Hunan Province Chest Hospital, Changsha, China

Junling Wang

Affiliation Shandong Province Chest Hospital, Jinan, China

Yan Zhang

Affiliation Hangzhou Red Cross Hospital, Hangzhou, China

Delin Gu

Affiliation The Sixth People Hospital of Nantong, Nantong, China

Lingjie Jing

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Medical School, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Jin Chen

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Medical School, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Ruijuan Zheng

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Medical School, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Lianhua Qin

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Medical School, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Hua Yang

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Medical School, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Ruiliang Jin

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Medical School, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Zhonghua Liu

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Medical School, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Aixiao Bi

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Medical School, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Jinming Liu

jinmingliu2007@yahoo.com.cn (JL); shhuzy@163.com (ZH)

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Medical School, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Zhongyi Hu

jinmingliu2007@yahoo.com.cn (JL); shhuzy@163.com (ZH)

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Medical School, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZYH ZLC J. Liu. Performed the experiments: JW XCH J. Lu QW ZNC JLW YZ DLG LJJ JC RJZ LHQ HY RLJ ZHL AXB. Analyzed the data: ZLC CTZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZYH J. Liu. Wrote the paper: ZLC CTZ ZYH.