About the Authors

Xinguang Chen

jimax.chen@ufl.edu

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Wuhan Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, Wuhan, China, School of Public Health, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, Pediatric Prevention Research Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Bin Yu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Dunjin Zhou

Affiliation Wuhan Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, Wuhan, China

Wang Zhou

Affiliation Wuhan Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, Wuhan, China

Jie Gong

Affiliation Wuhan Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, Wuhan, China

Shiyue Li

Affiliation School of Public Health, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Bonita Stanton

Affiliation Pediatric Prevention Research Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XC DZ WZ JG. Performed the experiments: XC DZ JG BY. Analyzed the data: XC BY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XC DZ WZ JG. Wrote the paper: XC BY. Revised the manuscript: SL BS.