About the Authors

Xuelian Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xuelian Chang, Daibin Zhong

Affiliations Department of Pathogen Biology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Department of Pathogen Biology, Bengbu Medical College, Anhui, China, Program in Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Daibin Zhong

Contributed equally to this work with: Xuelian Chang, Daibin Zhong

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

Qiang Fang

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Bengbu Medical College, Anhui, China

Joshua Hartsel

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

Guofa Zhou

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

Linna Shi

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Fujin Fang

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Changliang Zhu

clzhu@njmu.edu.cn (CZ); guiyuny@uci.edu (GY)

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Guiyun Yan

clzhu@njmu.edu.cn (CZ); guiyuny@uci.edu (GY)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DZ CZ GY. Performed the experiments: DZ XC JH. Analyzed the data: DZ GZ GY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QF LS FF. Wrote the paper: XC DZ GY.