About the Authors

Yanhua Liu

Affiliation Division of Research, Laboratory of Tuberculosis Prevention and Treatment of PLA, Institute of Tuberculosis, 309 Hospital, Beijing, China

Jing Jiang

Affiliation Division of Research, Laboratory of Tuberculosis Prevention and Treatment of PLA, Institute of Tuberculosis, 309 Hospital, Beijing, China

Xinjing Wang

Affiliation Division of Research, Laboratory of Tuberculosis Prevention and Treatment of PLA, Institute of Tuberculosis, 309 Hospital, Beijing, China

Fei Zhai

Affiliation Division of Research, Laboratory of Tuberculosis Prevention and Treatment of PLA, Institute of Tuberculosis, 309 Hospital, Beijing, China

Xiaoxing Cheng

xcheng2@139.com

Affiliation Division of Research, Laboratory of Tuberculosis Prevention and Treatment of PLA, Institute of Tuberculosis, 309 Hospital, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XC YL JJ. Performed the experiments: YL JJ XW FZ. Analyzed the data: XC YL JJ. Wrote the paper: XC YL.