About the Authors

Weijie Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Weijie Li, Jingmin Zhao

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Medical Center for Liver Failure, Beijing 302 Hospital, Beijing, China

Jingmin Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Weijie Li, Jingmin Zhao

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Beijing 302 Hospital, Beijing, China

Zhengsheng Zou

Affiliation Institute of Infectious Diseases and Medical Center for Liver Failure, Beijing 302 Hospital, Beijing, China

Yan Liu

Affiliation Institute of Infectious Diseases and Medical Center for Liver Failure, Beijing 302 Hospital, Beijing, China

Baosen Li

Affiliation Institute of Infectious Diseases and Medical Center for Liver Failure, Beijing 302 Hospital, Beijing, China

Ying Sun

Affiliation Institute of Infectious Diseases and Medical Center for Liver Failure, Beijing 302 Hospital, Beijing, China

Xiaodong Li

Affiliation Institute of Infectious Diseases and Medical Center for Liver Failure, Beijing 302 Hospital, Beijing, China

Shuhong Liu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Beijing 302 Hospital, Beijing, China

Shaoping Cai

Affiliation Institute of Infectious Diseases and Medical Center for Liver Failure, Beijing 302 Hospital, Beijing, China

Weimin Yao

Affiliation Institute of Infectious Diseases and Medical Center for Liver Failure, Beijing 302 Hospital, Beijing, China

Shaojie Xin

Affiliation Institute of Infectious Diseases and Medical Center for Liver Failure, Beijing 302 Hospital, Beijing, China

Fengmin Lu

xudongping302@sina.com (DX); lu.fengmin@hsc.pku.edu.cn (FL)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China

Dongping Xu

xudongping302@sina.com (DX); lu.fengmin@hsc.pku.edu.cn (FL)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Medical Center for Liver Failure, Beijing 302 Hospital, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DX FL JZ. Performed the experiments: WL XL SL SC WY. Analyzed the data: WL YL YS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JZ ZZ BL SX. Wrote the paper: WL DX.