About the Authors

Yixiong Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Yixiong Chen, Shaoping Zheng

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China

Shaoping Zheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Yixiong Chen, Shaoping Zheng

Affiliation Department of Ultrasonography, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China

Dan Qi

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China

Shaojiang Zheng

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Hainan Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Medicine, Hainan Medical College, Haikou, People’s Republic of China

Junli Guo

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Hainan Provincial Key Laboratory of Tropical Medicine, Hainan Medical College, Haikou, People’s Republic of China

Shuling Zhang

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China

Zhihong Weng

wzh941@126.com

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZHW YXC. Performed the experiments: YXC SPZ DQ. Analyzed the data: ZHW YXC SPZ SJZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JLG SLZ. Wrote the paper: ZHW YXC.