About the Authors

Mingming Hu

Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Beijing Tuberculosis and Thoracic tumor research Institute/ Beijing Chest Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 101149, China

Ying Hu

Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Beijing Tuberculosis and Thoracic tumor research Institute/ Beijing Chest Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 101149, China

Jiabei He

Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Beijing Tuberculosis and Thoracic tumor research Institute/ Beijing Chest Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 101149, China

Baolan Li

libaolan1109@163.com

Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Beijing Tuberculosis and Thoracic tumor research Institute/ Beijing Chest Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 101149, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BLL MMH. Performed the experiments: MMH YH JBH. Analyzed the data: MMH BLL YH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MMH JBH. Wrote the paper: MMH BLL YH.