About the Authors

Sheng-Tao Cheng

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Infectious Diseases (Ministry of Education), Institute for Viral Hepatitis, Department of Infectious Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Hua Tang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Infectious Diseases (Ministry of Education), Institute for Viral Hepatitis, Department of Infectious Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Ji-Hua Ren

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Infectious Diseases (Ministry of Education), Institute for Viral Hepatitis, Department of Infectious Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Xiang Chen

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Zhuzhou Central Hospital, Zhuzhou, China

Ai-Long Huang

yixin_xinyuan@163.com (JC); ahuang1964@163.com (A-LH)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Infectious Diseases (Ministry of Education), Institute for Viral Hepatitis, Department of Infectious Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China

Juan Chen

yixin_xinyuan@163.com (JC); ahuang1964@163.com (A-LH)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Infectious Diseases (Ministry of Education), Institute for Viral Hepatitis, Department of Infectious Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: A-LH JC. Data curation: JC. Formal analysis: JC S-TC. Funding acquisition: A-LH JC. Investigation: S-TC HT J-HR XC. Methodology: S-TC HT J-HR XC. Project administration: A-LH JC. Resources: A-LH JC. Software: JC S-TC. Writing – original draft: JC S-TC. Writing – review & editing: JC S-TC.