About the Authors

Xuefeng Gu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xuefeng Gu, Maoying Fu

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, The First People's Hospital of Kunshan Affiliated with Jiangsu University, Suzhou, China

Maoying Fu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xuefeng Gu, Maoying Fu

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, The First People's Hospital of Kunshan Affiliated with Jiangsu University, Suzhou, China

Yuqin Ding

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, The First People's Hospital of Kunshan Affiliated with Jiangsu University, Suzhou, China

Huihui Ni

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, The First People's Hospital of Kunshan Affiliated with Jiangsu University, Suzhou, China

Wei Zhang

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, The First People's Hospital of Kunshan Affiliated with Jiangsu University, Suzhou, China

Yanfang Zhu

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, The First People's Hospital of Kunshan Affiliated with Jiangsu University, Suzhou, China

Xiaojun Tang

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention & Treatment Cancer Center and The Key Laboratory of Antibody Technique of Ministry of Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Lin Xiong

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Jiang Li

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Jiangsu Province Geriatric Institute, Nanjing, China

Liang Qiu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Jiangsu Province Geriatric Institute, Nanjing, China

Jiaren Xu

xujiaren@tom.com (JRX); zhujin1968@njmu.edu.cn (JZ)

Affiliation Department of Hematology and Oncology, Jiangsu Provincial Hospital, Nanjing, China

Jin Zhu

xujiaren@tom.com (JRX); zhujin1968@njmu.edu.cn (JZ)

Affiliations The Key Laboratory of Cancer Biomarkers, Prevention & Treatment Cancer Center and The Key Laboratory of Antibody Technique of Ministry of Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Huadong Medical Institute of Biotechniques, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JRX JZ. Performed the experiments: XFG MYF HHN XJT LX JL LQ. Analyzed the data: XFG MYF XJT YQD WZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YQD HHN WZ YFZ. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: XFG. Supervised the study: JRX JZ.