About the Authors

Yiji Li

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control for Emerging Infectious Diseases of Guangdong Higher Institutes, Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Fatmata Kamara

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control for Emerging Infectious Diseases of Guangdong Higher Institutes, Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Guofa Zhou

Affiliation Program in Public Health, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Santhosh Puthiyakunnon

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control for Emerging Infectious Diseases of Guangdong Higher Institutes, Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Chunyuan Li

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control for Emerging Infectious Diseases of Guangdong Higher Institutes, Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Yanxia Liu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control for Emerging Infectious Diseases of Guangdong Higher Institutes, Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Yanhe Zhou

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control for Emerging Infectious Diseases of Guangdong Higher Institutes, Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Lijie Yao

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control for Emerging Infectious Diseases of Guangdong Higher Institutes, Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Guiyun Yan

Affiliation Program in Public Health, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Xiao-Guang Chen

xgchen2001@hotmail.com

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control for Emerging Infectious Diseases of Guangdong Higher Institutes, Department of Pathogen Biology, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XGC GY. Performed the experiments: YJL FK SP CL YXL YZ LY. Analyzed the data: GZ YJL SP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YJL FK GZ XGC. Wrote the paper: YJL FK SP GZ GY XGC.