About the Authors

Miao Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Miao Liu, Qingsi Wu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, People’s Republic of China, Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Microbiology and Parasitology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, People’s Republic of China

Qingsi Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Miao Liu, Qingsi Wu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, People’s Republic of China, Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Microbiology and Parasitology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, People’s Republic of China

Peng Chen

Affiliation College of Clinical Medical Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, People’s Republic of China

Berthold Büchele

Affiliation Institute of Pharmacology of Natural Products & Clinical Pharmacology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Maohong Bian

Affiliation Department of Blood Transfusion, The First Affiliated Hospital, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, People’s Republic of China

Shengjian Dong

Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Hefei Second People’s Hospital, Hefei, Anhui, People’s Republic of China

Dake Huang

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, People’s Republic of China, Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Microbiology and Parasitology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, People’s Republic of China

Cuiping Ren

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, People’s Republic of China, Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Microbiology and Parasitology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, People’s Republic of China

Yuxia Zhang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, People’s Republic of China

Xin Hou

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, People’s Republic of China, Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Microbiology and Parasitology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, People’s Republic of China

Thomas Simmet

thomas.simmet@uni-ulm.de (TS); shenjijia@hotmail.com (JS)

Affiliation Institute of Pharmacology of Natural Products & Clinical Pharmacology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Jijia Shen

thomas.simmet@uni-ulm.de (TS); shenjijia@hotmail.com (JS)

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, People’s Republic of China, Anhui Provincial Laboratory of Microbiology and Parasitology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JS ML TS. Performed the experiments: ML QW PC MB SD CR. Analyzed the data: ML QW YZ XH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TS BB DH CR. Wrote the paper: JS ML TS.