About the Authors

Haipeng Liu

Affiliations Shanghai TB Key Laboratory, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Clinical Translational Research Center, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Zhonghua Liu

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

Jianxia Chen

Affiliations Shanghai TB Key Laboratory, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Clinical Translational Research Center, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Ling Chen

Affiliation Clinical Translational Research Center, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Xin He

Affiliation Clinical Translational Research Center, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Ruijuan Zheng

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

Hong Yang

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Clinical Translational Research Center, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Peng Song

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Clinical Translational Research Center, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Dong Weng

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Clinical Translational Research Center, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Haili Hu

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

Lin Fan

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

Heping Xiao

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

Stefan H. E. Kaufmann

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Joel Ernst

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Baoxue Ge

baoxue_ge@tongji.edu.cn

Affiliations Shanghai TB Key Laboratory, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Clinical Translational Research Center, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Critical reading of manuscript: SK JE. Conceived and designed the experiments: HPL BXG. Performed the experiments: HPL ZHL JXC LC XH RJZ HY PS DW. Analyzed the data: HPL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HLH LF HPX. Wrote the paper: HPL BXG SK JE.