About the Authors

Zhonghua Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhonghua Liu, Yulu Gao, Hua Yang

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yulu Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhonghua Liu, Yulu Gao, Hua Yang

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Kunshan Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Kunshan, China

Hua Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhonghua Liu, Yulu Gao, Hua Yang

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Haiyang Bao

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Lianhua Qin

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Changtai Zhu

zct101@163.com (CTZ); yawenchen2211@163.com (YWC); shhuzy@163.com (ZYH)

Affiliation Department of Transfusion, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People’s Hospital, Shanghai, China

Yawen Chen

zct101@163.com (CTZ); yawenchen2211@163.com (YWC); shhuzy@163.com (ZYH)

Affiliation Department of Nursing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People’s Hospital, Shanghai, China

Zhongyi Hu

zct101@163.com (CTZ); yawenchen2211@163.com (YWC); shhuzy@163.com (ZYH)

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ZHL CTZ YLG ZYH. Data curation: ZHL. Formal analysis: YWC CTZ. Funding acquisition: ZYH ZHL CTZ. Investigation: ZHL HYB HY LHQ. Methodology: ZHL HYB HY LHQ. Project administration: ZYH ZHL CTZ. Resources: YLG YWC ZYH. Software: CTZ ZHL. Supervision: ZHL CTZ YWC. Validation: ZHL HYB HY LHQ. Visualization: CTZ YWC YLG ZHL. Writing – original draft: CTZ ZHL ZYH. Writing – review & editing: ZHL CTZ ZYH YWC YLG.