About the Authors

Li Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Li, Wen-Hui Liu, Zhou-Bin Zhang

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Organ Failure Research, Department of Biostatistics, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Wen-Hui Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Li, Wen-Hui Liu, Zhou-Bin Zhang

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Organ Failure Research, Department of Biostatistics, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China, Guangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Zhou-Bin Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Li, Wen-Hui Liu, Zhou-Bin Zhang

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Guangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Yuan Liu

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Guangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Xiao-Guang Chen

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

Lei Luo

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

llyeyq@163.com (LL); ouchunquan@hotmail.com (CQO)

Affiliation Guangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Chun-Quan Ou

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

llyeyq@163.com (LL); ouchunquan@hotmail.com (CQO)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Organ Failure Research, Department of Biostatistics, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Research, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.