About the Authors

Yan Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Li, Dan Yang

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China, Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory for Infection and Immunity, Key Laboratory of Etiology of Heilongjiang Province Education Bureau, Harbin, China

Dan Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Li, Dan Yang

Affiliation Department of Forensic Medicine, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

Jia-Ye Wang

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China, Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory for Infection and Immunity, Key Laboratory of Etiology of Heilongjiang Province Education Bureau, Harbin, China

Yuan Yao

Affiliation Academy of Fundamental and Interdisciplinary Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

Wei-Zhe Zhang

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China, Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory for Infection and Immunity, Key Laboratory of Etiology of Heilongjiang Province Education Bureau, Harbin, China

Lu-Jing Wang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China

De-Chun Cheng

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China, Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory for Infection and Immunity, Key Laboratory of Etiology of Heilongjiang Province Education Bureau, Harbin, China

Feng-Kun Yang

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China, Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory for Infection and Immunity, Key Laboratory of Etiology of Heilongjiang Province Education Bureau, Harbin, China

Feng-Min Zhang

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China, Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory for Infection and Immunity, Key Laboratory of Etiology of Heilongjiang Province Education Bureau, Harbin, China

Min Zhuang

lingh@ems.hrbmu.edu.cn (HL); zhuangm@ems.hrbmu.edu.cn (MZ)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China, Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory for Infection and Immunity, Key Laboratory of Etiology of Heilongjiang Province Education Bureau, Harbin, China

Hong Ling

lingh@ems.hrbmu.edu.cn (HL); zhuangm@ems.hrbmu.edu.cn (MZ)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China, Department of Parasitology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China, Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory for Infection and Immunity, Key Laboratory of Etiology of Heilongjiang Province Education Bureau, Harbin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL DY JYW HL FMZ. Performed the experiments: YL DY WZZ FKY LJW DCC. Analyzed the data: YL MZ YY. Wrote the paper: YL MZ HL.