About the Authors

Hai Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hai Jiang, Heng Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Heng Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hai Jiang, Heng Wang

Affiliation Laboratory of Endemic and Parasitic Diseases Control and Prevention, Hangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China

Liqing Xu

Affiliation Laboratory of Brucellosis, Qinghai Institute for Endemic Disease Prevention and Control, Xining, China

Guiying Hu

Affiliation Laboratory of Brucellosis, Qinghai Institute for Endemic Disease Prevention and Control, Xining, China

Junying Ma

Affiliation Laboratory of Brucellosis, Qinghai Institute for Endemic Disease Prevention and Control, Xining, China

Pei Xiao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Weixing Fan

Affiliation Laboratory of Zoonoses, China Animal Health and Epidemiology Center, MOA, Qingdao, China

Dongdong Di

Affiliation Laboratory of Zoonoses, China Animal Health and Epidemiology Center, MOA, Qingdao, China

Guozhong Tian

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Mengguang Fan

Affiliation Department of Brucellosis, Inner Mongolia Center of Endemic Disease Control and Research, Huhhot, China

Jingchuan Mi

Affiliation Department of Brucellosis, Inner Mongolia Center of Endemic Disease Control and Research, Huhhot, China

Ruiping Yu

Affiliation Department of Brucellosis, Inner Mongolia Center of Endemic Disease Control and Research, Huhhot, China

Litao Song

Affiliation Department of Brucellosis, Inner Mongolia Center of Endemic Disease Control and Research, Huhhot, China

Hongyan Zhao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Dongri Piao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Buyun Cui

cuibuyun@icdc.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HJ BC. Performed the experiments: HW LX GH JM PX GT. Analyzed the data: WF DD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MF JM RY LS HZ DP. Wrote the manuscript: HJ HW.