About the Authors

Awtum M. Brashear

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

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Qi Fan

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Dalian Institute of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning Province, China

Yubing Hu

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Immunology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

Yuling Li

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Immunology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

Yan Zhao

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Immunology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

Zenglei Wang

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation MHC Key Laboratory of Systems Biology of Pathogens, Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Beijing Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Yaming Cao

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Immunology, College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

Jun Miao

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

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

Alyssa Barry

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

Affiliation Infection Systems Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia

Liwang Cui

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

liwangcui@usf.edu

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.