About the Authors

Qing Yang

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, PR China

Yehai Liu

yehailiu2003@yahoo.com.cn (Y. Li); Maoli.Duan@ki.se (MD)

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, PR China

Yang Huang

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, PR China

Dake Huang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, PR China

Yifan Li

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, PR China

Jing Wu

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, PR China

Maoli Duan

yehailiu2003@yahoo.com.cn (Y. Li); Maoli.Duan@ki.se (MD)

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, PR China, Department of clinical science, intervention and technology, Karolonska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Y. Liu MD. Performed the experiments: QY YH DH. Analyzed the data: QY YH Y. Li JW. Wrote the paper: QY.