About the Authors

Lunbiao Cui

Contributed equally to this work with: Lunbiao Cui, Yuhua Qi

Affiliations Institute of Pathogen Microbiology, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Nanjing, China, Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Yuhua Qi

Contributed equally to this work with: Lunbiao Cui, Yuhua Qi

Affiliation Institute of Pathogen Microbiology, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Nanjing, China

Haijing Li

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Yiyue Ge

Affiliation Institute of Pathogen Microbiology, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Nanjing, China

Kangchen Zhao

Affiliation Institute of Pathogen Microbiology, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Nanjing, China

Xian Qi

Affiliation Institute of Pathogen Microbiology, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Nanjing, China

Xiling Guo

Affiliation Institute of Pathogen Microbiology, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Nanjing, China

Zhiyang Shi

Affiliation Institute of Pathogen Microbiology, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Nanjing, China

Minghao Zhou

Affiliation Institute of Pathogen Microbiology, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Nanjing, China

Baoli Zhu

Affiliation Institute of Pathogen Microbiology, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Nanjing, China

Yan Guo

Affiliation Nanjing Children's Hospital, Nanjing, China

Jun Li

Affiliation Nanjing Children's Hospital, Nanjing, China

Charles W. Stratton

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Yi-Wei Tang

yiwei.tang@vanderbilt.edu (YWT); hua@jscdc.cn (HW)

Affiliations Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Hua Wang

yiwei.tang@vanderbilt.edu (YWT); hua@jscdc.cn (HW)

Affiliation Institute of Pathogen Microbiology, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LC YQ HW YWT. Performed the experiments: LC YQ HQ HL KZ XG. Analyzed the data: Y. Ge XQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZS MZ BZ Y. Guo JL. Wrote the paper: LC CWS YWT.