About the Authors

Shi-gui Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shi-gui Yang, Bin Cao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China

Bin Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Shi-gui Yang, Bin Cao

Affiliation Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Beijing Institute of Respiratory Medicine, Beijing Key Laboratory of Respiratory and Pulmonary Circulation, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Li-rong Liang

Affiliation Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Beijing Institute of Respiratory Medicine, Beijing Key Laboratory of Respiratory and Pulmonary Circulation, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Xiao-li Li

Affiliation Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Beijing Institute of Respiratory Medicine, Beijing Key Laboratory of Respiratory and Pulmonary Circulation, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Yong-hong Xiao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China

Zhi-xin Cao

Affiliation Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Beijing Institute of Respiratory Medicine, Beijing Key Laboratory of Respiratory and Pulmonary Circulation, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Hong-yu Jia

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China

Hong-jie Yu

Affiliation Disease Control and Emergency Response Office, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Zhen Xu

Affiliation Disease Control and Emergency Response Office, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Li Gu

Affiliation Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Beijing Institute of Respiratory Medicine, Beijing Key Laboratory of Respiratory and Pulmonary Circulation, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Yi-da Yang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China

Yu Chen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China

Wei-bo Du

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China

Xi-xin Yan

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China

Zong-an Liang

Affiliation West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Wei Zhang

Affiliation The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University. Nanchang, China

Chang-le Zhang

Affiliation Wenzhou No.2 People's Hospital, Wenzhou, China

Wei Chen

Affiliation Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China

Cai-ping Guo

Affiliation Capital Medical University Beijing You'an Hospital, Beijing, China

Xun-liang Jiang

Affiliation The Children's Hospital of Hunan Province, Changsha, China

Ming Yang

Affiliation Beijing Children's Hospital, Beijing, China

Guang-ming Deng

Affiliation Shaoyang Central Hospital, Shaoyang, China

Kai-jiang Yu

Affiliation The Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

Ke Hu

Affiliation Remin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Qi Zou

Affiliation Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fuzhou, China

Lan-juan Li

cyh-birm@263.net (CW); ljli@zju.edu.cn (LJL)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China

Chen Wang

cyh-birm@263.net (CW); ljli@zju.edu.cn (LJL)

Affiliation Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Beijing Institute of Respiratory Medicine, Beijing Key Laboratory of Respiratory and Pulmonary Circulation, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

for the National Influenza A Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Clinical Investigation Group of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: L-jL CW S-gY BC. Performed the experiments: S-gY BC L-rL X-lL Y-hX Z-xC H-yJ H-jY ZX LG Y-dY YC W-bD X-xY Z-aL WZ C-lZ WC C-pG X-lJ MY G-mD K-jY KH QZ L-jL CW. Analyzed the data: S-gY BC L-rL X-lL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: S-gY BC L-rL X-lL Y-hX Z-xC H-yJ H-jY ZX LG Y-dY YC W-bD X-xY Z-aL WZ C-lZ WC C-pG X-lJ MY G-mD K-jY KH QZ L-jL CW. Wrote the paper: S-gY BC.