About the Authors

Weixu Meng

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Weiqi Pan

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Anna J. X. Zhang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Zhengfeng Li

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Guowei Wei

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Liqiang Feng

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Zhenyuan Dong

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Chufang Li

Affiliation First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Xiangjing Hu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Caijun Sun

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Qinfang Luo

Affiliation First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Kwok-Yung Yuen

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Nanshan Zhong

Affiliation First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Ling Chen

chen002@gmail.com

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WM KYY LC. Performed the experiments: WM WP AZ ZD GW LF ZL XH. Analyzed the data: WM WP LC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WM WP AZ ZD GW LF ZL CL XH CS QL NZ KYY. Wrote the manuscript: WM LC.