About the Authors

Hong Ji

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Ji, Qin Gu, Li-ling Chen, Ke Xu, Xia Ling

Affiliation Department of Acute Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Qin Gu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Ji, Qin Gu, Li-ling Chen, Ke Xu, Xia Ling

Affiliation Department of Critical Care Medicine, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Li-ling Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Ji, Qin Gu, Li-ling Chen, Ke Xu, Xia Ling

Affiliation Suzhou Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Ke Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Ji, Qin Gu, Li-ling Chen, Ke Xu, Xia Ling

Affiliation Department of Acute Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Xia Ling

Contributed equally to this work with: Hong Ji, Qin Gu, Li-ling Chen, Ke Xu, Xia Ling

Affiliation Wuxi Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

Chang-jun Bao

bao2000_cn@163.com (CJB); zmh@jscdc.cn (MHZ)

Affiliation Department of Acute Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Fen-yang Tang

Affiliation Department of Acute Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Xian Qi

Affiliation Department of Acute Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Ying-qiu Wu

Affiliation The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Jing Ai

Affiliation Department of Acute Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Gu-yu Shen

Affiliation Wuxi People's Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

Dan-jiang Dong

Affiliation Department of Critical Care Medicine, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Hui-yan Yu

Affiliation Department of Acute Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Mao Huang

Affiliation The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Quan Cao

Affiliation The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Ying Xu

Affiliation The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Wei Zhao

Affiliation The Second Hospital of Nanjing, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Yang-ting Xu

Affiliation Nanjing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Yu Xia

Affiliation Suzhou Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Shan-hui Chen

Affiliation Wuxi Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

Gen-lin Yang

Affiliation Wuxi People's Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

Cai-ling Gu

Affiliation The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Guo-xiang Xie

Affiliation Nanjing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Ye-fei Zhu

Affiliation Department of Acute Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Feng-cai Zhu

Affiliation Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Ming-hao Zhou

bao2000_cn@163.com (CJB); zmh@jscdc.cn (MHZ)

Affiliation Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XQ YFZ. Performed the experiments: XL HYY Y. Xia. Analyzed the data: HJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QG LLC FYT YQW GYS DJD MH QC Y. Xu WZ YTX SHC GLY CLG GXX. Wrote the paper: HJ KX. Conceived and designed the study: CJB FCZ MHZ. Explained the results: QG KX FYT. Drafted the manuscript: CJB. Search of published related articles: JA.