About the Authors

Hua Yang

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Haizhen Chen

Affiliation Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China

Zhonghua Liu

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Hui Ma

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Lianhua Qin

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Ruiliang Jin

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Ruijuan Zheng

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Yonghong Feng

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Zhenling Cui

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Jie Wang

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Jinming Liu

jinmingliu_sh@hotmail.com (JL); shhuzy@163.com (ZH)

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Zhongyi Hu

jinmingliu_sh@hotmail.com (JL); shhuzy@163.com (ZH)

Affiliation Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HY ZL JL ZH. Performed the experiments: HC HM. Analyzed the data: LQ RJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RZ YF ZC JW. Wrote the paper: HY.