About the Authors

Qing-Bin Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Qing-Bin Lu, Xiao-Ai Zhang

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, Shandong University, Jinan, People’s Republic of China, State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Xiao-Ai Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qing-Bin Lu, Xiao-Ai Zhang

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

Ying Wo

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

Hong-Mei Xu

Affiliation Children’s Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

Xiu-Jun Li

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, Shandong University, Jinan, People’s Republic of China

Xian-Jun Wang

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Control, Shandong Provincial Disease Prevention and Control Center, Jinan, People’s Republic of China

Shu-Jun Ding

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Control, Shandong Provincial Disease Prevention and Control Center, Jinan, People’s Republic of China

Xiao-Dan Chen

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

Cui He

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

Li-Juan Liu

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

Hao Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, 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

Ting-Yu Li

Affiliation Children’s Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China

Wei Liu

caowc@nic.bmi.ac.cn (WCC); liu_weis@sohu.com (WL)

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

Wu-Chun Cao

caowc@nic.bmi.ac.cn (WCC); liu_weis@sohu.com (WL)

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: WL WCC. Performed the experiments: QBL XAZ YW XDC CH LJL HL HY. Analyzed the data: QBL XAZ WL WCC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HMX XJL XJW SJD TYL. Wrote the paper: QBL XAZ WL WCC.