About the Authors

Fei Guo

Affiliation Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Institute of Respiratory Medicine, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, Republic of China

Yong Chen

Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, Republic of China

Shuang-Li Yang

Affiliation Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Institute of Respiratory Medicine, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, Republic of China

Huan Xia

Affiliation Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Institute of Respiratory Medicine, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, Republic of China

Xing-Wang Li

tongzhaohuicy@sina.com (Z-HT); ditanlxw@163.com (X-WL)

Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, Republic of China

Zhao-Hui Tong

tongzhaohuicy@sina.com (Z-HT); ditanlxw@163.com (X-WL)

Affiliation Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Institute of Respiratory Medicine, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Z-HT X-WL. Performed the experiments: FG. Analyzed the data: Z-HT X-WL FG YC S-LY HX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FG. Wrote the paper: FG.