About the Authors

Jilin Cheng

Current address: Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre, Fudan University Shanghai, Jinshan, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Qingen Ke

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Zhuang Jin

Affiliation Division of Allergy, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Haibin Wang

Affiliation Division of Allergy, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Olivier Kocher

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

James P. Morgan

Affiliation Cardiovascular Center, Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jielin Zhang

jlzhang@partners.org (JZ); ccrumpac@bidmc.harvard.edu (CSC)

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Clyde S. Crumpacker

jlzhang@partners.org (JZ); ccrumpac@bidmc.harvard.edu (CSC)

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JZ CSC. Performed the experiments: JC QK ZJ HW. Analyzed the data: JC QK ZJ OK JPM JZ CSC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JPM. Wrote the paper: JZ CSC.