About the Authors

Yongshui Fu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yongshui Fu, Weibing Qin

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Guangzhou Blood Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Weibing Qin

Contributed equally to this work with: Yongshui Fu, Weibing Qin

Affiliations Family Planning Research Institute of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, The Vaccine Institute, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Hong Cao

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Ru Xu

Affiliation Guangzhou Blood Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Yi Tan

Affiliation Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Teng Lu

Affiliation University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Hongren Wang

Affiliation The Vaccine Institute, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Wangxia Tong

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Xia Rong

Affiliation Guangzhou Blood Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Gang Li

Affiliation The Vaccine Institute, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Manqiong Yuan

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Viral Oncology Center, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Chunhua Li

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Viral Oncology Center, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Kenji Abe

Affiliation Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Ling Lu

llu@kumc.edu

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Viral Oncology Center, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America, Laboratory for Hepatology, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Guihua Chen

Affiliation Laboratory for Hepatology, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LL. Performed the experiments: YF WQ HC RX TL HW WT GL CL. Analyzed the data: TL CL MY LL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YT KA GC. Wrote the paper: LL. Helped with sample collection: XR.