About the Authors

Cuicai Zhang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Huimian Yang

Affiliation Mentougou District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Xiuwen Li

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Zhiqiang Cao

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Haijian Zhou

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Linzi Zeng

Affiliation SiChuan Province Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, People's Republic of China

Jianmin Xu

Affiliation JiangXi Province Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanchang, People's Republic of China

Yinghua Xu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Health for Research on Quality and Standardization of Biotech Products, National Institutes of Food and Drug Control, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Yung-Fu Chang

Affiliation Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Xiaokui Guo

microbiology@sjtu.edu (XG); yzhzhu@hotmail.com (YZ); jiangxiugao@icdc.cn (XJ)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Medical Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Yongzhang Zhu

microbiology@sjtu.edu (XG); yzhzhu@hotmail.com (YZ); jiangxiugao@icdc.cn (XJ)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Medical Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Xiugao Jiang

microbiology@sjtu.edu (XG); yzhzhu@hotmail.com (YZ); jiangxiugao@icdc.cn (XJ)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CZ YZ. Performed the experiments: HY XL LZ JX YX. Analyzed the data: HZ ZC. Wrote the paper: CZ YZ YFC XG XJ.