About the Authors

Hong-Wei Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong-Wei Gao, Li-Ping Wang, Song Liang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Li-Ping Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong-Wei Gao, Li-Ping Wang, Song Liang

Affiliation National Center for Public Health Surveillance and Information Service, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Song Liang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong-Wei Gao, Li-Ping Wang, Song Liang

Affiliation Environmental and Global Health, College of Public Health and Health Professions, and Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Yong-Xiao Liu

Affiliation Anhui Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Hefei, People’s Republic of China

Shi-Lu Tong

Affiliation School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland, Australia

Jian-Jun Wang

Affiliation Anhui Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Hefei, People’s Republic of China

Ya-Pin Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Xiao-Feng Wang

Affiliation National Center for Public Health Surveillance and Information Service, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Hong Yang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Jia-Qi Ma

Affiliation National Center for Public Health Surveillance and Information Service, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Li-Qun Fang

caowc@bmi.ac.cn (WCC); fanglq@bmi.ac.cn (LQF)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Wu-Chun Cao

caowc@bmi.ac.cn (WCC); fanglq@bmi.ac.cn (LQF)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HWG WCC LQF LPW JQM. Analyzed the data: HWG WCC SL SLT LQF LPW YXL JJW XFW YPL HY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LPW YXL JJW JQM XFW YPL HY HWG LQF. Wrote the paper: HWG LQF SL SLT WCC LPW JQM.