About the Authors
- Tong-Bao Liu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Tong-Bao Liu, Jong-Chul Kim
Affiliation Public Health Research Institute Center, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America
- Jong-Chul Kim
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Contributed equally to this work with: Tong-Bao Liu, Jong-Chul Kim
Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America
- Yina Wang
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Affiliations Public Health Research Institute Center, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America, Tianjin Research Center of Basic Medical Science, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
- Dena L. Toffaletti
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Affiliation Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Eliseo Eugenin
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Affiliations Public Health Research Institute Center, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America
- John R. Perfect
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Affiliation Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Kee Jun Kim
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* E-mail: kkim@kumc.edu (KJK); xuech@umdnj.edu (CX)
Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America
- Chaoyang Xue
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* E-mail: kkim@kumc.edu (KJK); xuech@umdnj.edu (CX)
Affiliations Public Health Research Institute Center, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TBL JCK JRP EE KJK CX. Performed the experiments: TBL JCK YW DLT EE KJK CX. Analyzed the data: TBL JCK DLT EE JRP KJK CX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EE JRP KJK CX. Wrote the paper: KJK CX.