About the Authors

Jin-ling Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Jin-ling Chen, Yi-yue Ge

Affiliations Department of Pathogen Biology, Key Laboratory of Pathogen Biology of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Department of Parasitology and Microbiology, School of Medicine, Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

Yi-yue Ge

Contributed equally to this work with: Jin-ling Chen, Yi-yue Ge

Affiliations Department of Pathogen Biology, Key Laboratory of Pathogen Biology of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, Institute of Pathogen Microbiology, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Jie Zhang

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Key Laboratory of Pathogen Biology of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Xiao-yan Qiu

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Key Laboratory of Pathogen Biology of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Jing-fan Qiu

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Key Laboratory of Pathogen Biology of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Jiang-ping Wu

Affiliation Nanjing Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Yong Wang

yongwsh@njmu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Pathogen Biology, Key Laboratory of Pathogen Biology of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YW J-PW J-LC. Performed the experiments: J-LC Y-YG JZ X-YQ. Analyzed the data: J-LC Y-YG JZ J-FQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: J-LC Y-YG JZ X-YQ. Wrote the paper: J-LC YW J-FQ.