About the Authors

Minghua Yang

yamahua123@163.com (MY); caolizhi318@163.com (LC)

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha Hunan, China

Pei Zeng

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha Hunan, China

Rui Kang

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yan Yu

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha Hunan, China

Liangchun Yang

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha Hunan, China

Daolin Tang

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Lizhi Cao

yamahua123@163.com (MY); caolizhi318@163.com (LC)

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha Hunan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MY LC. Performed the experiments: MY PZ RK YY LY DT. Analyzed the data: MY DT LC. Wrote the paper: MY LC.