About the Authors

Lei Bao

Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Bao, Tao Li, Ni Diao

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Tao Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Bao, Tao Li, Ni Diao

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Department of Tuberculosis Disease, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Ni Diao

Contributed equally to this work with: Lei Bao, Tao Li, Ni Diao

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Yaojie Shen

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Lingyun Shao

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Ying Zhang

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Shuihua Lu

zhangwenhong@fudan.edu.cn (WZ); tubercle@shaphc.org (SL)

Affiliation Department of Tuberculosis Disease, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Wenhong Zhang

zhangwenhong@fudan.edu.cn (WZ); tubercle@shaphc.org (SL)

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WZ SL LS YZ. Performed the experiments: TL YS. Analyzed the data: LB TL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LB TL. Wrote the paper: LB TL ND.