About the Authors

Fanfan Xing

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control, The University of Hong Kong—Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Haiyan Ye

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control, The University of Hong Kong—Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Chaowen Deng

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control, The University of Hong Kong—Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Linlin Sun

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control, The University of Hong Kong—Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Yanfei Yuan

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control, The University of Hong Kong—Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Qianyun Lu

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control, The University of Hong Kong—Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Jin Yang

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control, The University of Hong Kong—Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Simon K. F. Lo

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control, The University of Hong Kong—Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Ruiping Zhang

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Hong Kong—Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Jonathan H. K. Chen

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

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China

Jasper F. W. Chan

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control, The University of Hong Kong—Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Susanna K. P Lau

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

skplau@hku.hk (SKPL); pcywoo@hku.hk (PCYW)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Patrick C. Y. Woo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

skplau@hku.hk (SKPL); pcywoo@hku.hk (PCYW)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.