About the Authors

Jiangyan Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiangyan Li, Jie Zhang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, Anhui Province, China, Anhui Key Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, Anhui Province, China

Jie Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jiangyan Li, Jie Zhang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology and Immunology, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China

Qian Li

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, Anhui Province, China, Xiangtan Blood Center, Xiangtan, Hunan Province, China

Yue Hu

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology and Immunology, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China

Yonghua Ruan

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China

Zhiyong Tao

Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, Anhui Province, China, Anhui Key Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, Anhui Province, China

Hui Xia

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, Anhui Province, China, Anhui Key Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, Anhui Province, China

Jichen Qiao

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, Anhui Province, China, Anhui Key Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, Anhui Province, China

Lingwen Meng

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, Anhui Province, China, Anhui Key Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, Anhui Province, China

Weilin Zeng

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology and Immunology, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China

Cuiying Li

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology and Immunology, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China

Xi He

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology and Immunology, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China

Luyi Zhao

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology and Immunology, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China

Faiza A. Siddiqui

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Jun Miao

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Zhaoqing Yang

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

zhaoqingy92@hotmail.com (ZY); fq333@sohu.com (QF)

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology and Immunology, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China

Qiang Fang

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

zhaoqingy92@hotmail.com (ZY); fq333@sohu.com (QF)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, Anhui Province, China, Anhui Key Laboratory of Infection and Immunity, Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, Anhui Province, China

Liwang Cui

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.