About the Authors

Zetian Lai

Contributed equally to this work with: Zetian Lai, Tengfei Zhou

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Key laboratory of Tropical Disease Research of Guangdong Province, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Tengfei Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Zetian Lai, Tengfei Zhou

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Key laboratory of Tropical Disease Research of Guangdong Province, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Jiayong Zhou

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Key laboratory of Tropical Disease Research of Guangdong Province, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Shuang Liu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Key laboratory of Tropical Disease Research of Guangdong Province, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Ye Xu

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Key laboratory of Tropical Disease Research of Guangdong Province, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Jinbao Gu

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Key laboratory of Tropical Disease Research of Guangdong Province, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Guiyun Yan

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Program in Public Health, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States of America

Xiao-Guang Chen

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

xgchen@smu.edu.cn (XGC)

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Key laboratory of Tropical Disease Research of Guangdong Province, School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.