About the Authors

Yu Pang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Pang, Yang Zhou, Bing Zhao

Affiliation National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Yang Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Pang, Yang Zhou, Bing Zhao

Affiliation National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Bing Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu Pang, Yang Zhou, Bing Zhao

Affiliation National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Guan Liu

Affiliation Beijing Tuberculosis and Thoracic Tumor Research Institute, Beijing, China

Guanglu Jiang

Affiliation Beijing Tuberculosis and Thoracic Tumor Research Institute, Beijing, China

Hui Xia

Affiliation National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Yuanyuan Song

Affiliation National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Yuanyuan Shang

Affiliation Beijing Tuberculosis and Thoracic Tumor Research Institute, Beijing, China

Shengfen Wang

Affiliation National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Yan-lin Zhao

zhaoyanlin@chinatb.org

Affiliation National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YP Y. Zhou BZ Y. Zhao. Performed the experiments: YP Y. Zhou BZ GL GJ HX Y. Song Y. Shang SW. Analyzed the data: YP SW Y. Zhao. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Y. Song. Wrote the paper: YP Y. Zhao.